Mail password keeps being forgotten...

[Rudolf O.Durrer]

Rergarding "com.apple.security.plist":
I have a MacMini, with OSX 10.4.11 on one partition and 10.5.1 on  
another. On both partition I have that plist file. I can throw it  
away without that this seem to have any effects.

Netinfo Manager.app and Keychain Access.app are at least two apps,  
that I have tested , who will create a new one, but I dont know, if  
there are any other apps or even the system itself, which also will  
create new ones.

Read the password:
My problem was, that Mail.app did not anymore "read" the password  
from chain, therefore asking me to enter it by hand. As far as I  
understood this thread, that was what also happened to you...  (BTW,  
this happened indeed that day I used service srubber...:-)  )

Write the password:
I then subsequently typed in the password in mail and clicked "save  
to keychain". Now, indeed, it appeared that Mail.app seemed not to  
"write" the password to the chain: Opening mails preferences and  
controlling the accounts tab, no password was there.
Rewriting the password in the accounts tab, saving the changes,  
reopening the accounts tab, and...njet, no password was there.


Opening Keychain Access.app: no passwords where there at all!!  
Indeed, the COMPLETE user login.chain did not appear anymore, all  
things had gone.


BUT:
Once, I have corrected the above-mentioned plist file, the user  
login.chain showed up again in Keychain Access.app, mails the  
passwords showed up again in Mail.app,   even those I have  
desperately tried to enter and then always vanished driving me  
crazy.....
That means, that the passwords where written, even when the plist  
file was corrupted, only that I could not see it and mail.app could  
not read them back.


Rudolf


Am 08.03.2008 um 16.05 schrieb David Herren:

> I don't find a "com.apple.security.plist" file anywhere on my  
> machine...
>
> This was an encouraging clue even though my problem is exactly the  
> opposite. My apps can _read_ existing passwords, but nothing new  
> can be written to the keychain.
> snip..snip..snip



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