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Problem with Mail.app and/or Keychain

Hi, I got the 10.5.2 rev.1 torrent and installed with no problems, but I'm discovering some strange minor glitches here and there, wondering if there are any ideas. This biggest one for me right now: Bonjour and AFP don't work. But, more…

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@bladex Published 2008-02-27
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3,573 historical reads · 5 curated field notes (from 10 dispatches) · 2008-02-27 – 2009-12-08
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Hi, I got the 10.5.2 rev.1 torrent and installed with no problems, but I'm discovering some strange minor glitches here and there, wondering if there are any ideas. This biggest one for me right now: Bonjour and AFP don't work. But, more annoying for me is:

Mail.app won't remember passwords. Filling them in on the account setup screen in preferences doesn't get saved, even though the prefs screen says the "this account is changed, want to save" when I close it. Going back in, the password field is empty again instead of the dots. Also, if I check 'save password in keychain', the password gets saved there, but Mail.app later won't find it there and asks for the password. I tried dumping all my Mail.app prefs, deleting my keychain and starting over, same problem.

I don't have this problem on my vanilla 10.5.2 install on my Core 2 Duo box; I tried moving over another Mail.app from my Macbook and re-patching it with Marv's and still same problem. This is slightly sucky since I use Mail.app to check 4 different IMAP accounts, so I have to enter a password 4 times plus another 2 for the SMTP servers.

My system is a Tyan K8E (S2865) nforce4 board, AMD X2 3800+, 2gb RAM, Nvidia 8600GT, Samsung Spinpoint 250gb SATA-II.

Any suggestions? Thanks Zephyroth for a great release!

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5 technical responses curated from 10 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @HCE 2008-02-27

Same problem here, ASUS A8NSLI SE nforce4, AMD 64 3500+, nVidia 7600GS, 2xSATA disks. Mail doesn't remember passwords, no idea how to fix this...

Field Note #2 @Puttabong 2008-02-27

1. Go to Utilities, open the Keychain - search for the mail(server) passwords that you set with Mail.app

2. Right Click -> Information -> Access -> Allow all Applications to access

3. Fixed

Field Note #3 @HCE 2008-02-28

Thank you so very much. Fixed, indeed.

P.S.: Someone could sticky this solution, I guess there are others stuck with this issue.

Field Note #4 @gipo 2008-03-12

Wow... puttabong! i searched for this issue on apple's forum and nothing to do.. you are an apple's god... ;-)))
When i'll be home i'll try... cause it's really a crap this password mail's problem.

Field Note #5 @smileyme 2008-04-11

Following puttabong's advice, the Mail server password didn't do it for me. However, following the same acvice in .Mac access did.

Thanks puttabong,

Rick

Corroborated & Participated: @Puttabong @art @peppi @danielmole
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@HCEContributor22008-02-27 → 2008-02-28
@PuttabongContributor22008-02-27 → 2008-02-29
@bladexPrimary Author12008-02-27
@artContributor12008-03-03
@peppiContributor12008-03-12
@gipoContributor12008-03-12
@smileymeContributor12008-04-11
@danielmoleContributor12009-12-08