Re: Mail program is malfunctioning

Barry Margolin <barmar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
BreadWithSpam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

is, indeed, Mail's standard mode of failure for just about
any problem it has talking to your mail server. Folks often
mistake that to mean that Mail has actually forgotten
their passwords (and it's a regular question asked in

The problem is that the POP3 protocol doesn't provide any way to
distinguish different types of errors. Unlike SMTP, HTTP, and NNTP,

Interesting.

Is IMAP any more forthcoming? I, for one, never - ever -
use POP.

Still, Mail.app could be more clear about what's going on.
The chance that it's forgotten folks passwords is rather
slim compared to the chance of other errors and it's
unfortunately misleading.

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