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From: Salmon Egg on 21 Dec 2009 17:05
In article <SalmonEgg-4D4C7C.03594421122009(a)news60.forteinc.com>,
Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I am using Apple Mail on my new computer after transferring information
> from an old volume. I have several accounts. All seem to work well
> except for one. For this one, I get the spinning spokes when I am
> downloading new messages. When that is happening,I cannot quit
> gracefully. I have to force quit.
>
> I am able to send from this account without a problem even while the
> spinning is going on. I do not receive anything when I send a message to
> this account. As I look over the account information, I see nothing
> unusual. The only thing that I can think of is that the password got
> mangled. I am going through all this in detail tomorrow, including
> making sure that the password is correct. Meanwhile, I would like to
> know if this has been seen by others.
>
> Bill

All of a sudden, the questionable account seems to be working. This
after about two days of spinning spokes. AFIK I did nothing to make it
work.

It is strange because the other accounts have been working just fine.
Computers are weird and wonderful things.

Bill

--
An old man would be better off never having been born.
From: Red on 22 Dec 2009 17:46
Tom Stiller wrote:
> In article <hgo9ue$olp$1(a)news.albasani.net>, Red <red(a)neckspam.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Tim Murray wrote:
>>> Salmon Egg wrote:
>>>> I am using Apple Mail on my new computer after transferring information
>>>> from an old volume. I have several accounts. All seem to work well
>>>> except for one. For this one, I get the spinning spokes when I am
>>>> downloading new messages. When that is happening,I cannot quit
>>>> gracefully. I have to force quit.
>>>>
>>>> I am able to send from this account without a problem even while the
>>>> spinning is going on. I do not receive anything when I send a message to
>>>> this account. As I look over the account information, I see nothing
>>>> unusual. The only thing that I can think of is that the password got
>>>> mangled. I am going through all this in detail tomorrow, including
>>>> making sure that the password is correct. Meanwhile, I would like to
>>>> know if this has been seen by others.
>>
>>> I would delete the account and its password from the Keychain, and key the
>>> server information in manually.
>>>
>> Dumb Newb question here-- how do you do delete stuff from Keychain?
>
> Launch the Keychain Access application (/Applications/Utilities/Keychain
> Access), select the offending entry, and press the delete key.
>


Ahh, thanks!
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