[MlMt] MM keeps re-asking for password

[Annamarie Pluhar]

I do get these requests for password every now and then. With the 
password filled in. It’s annoying but goes away pretty quickly.

Annamarie Pluhar
802-451-1941
802-579-5975 (iPhone - not good when I'm at my desk.)

On 18 Jul 2020, at 2:05, Mike Alexander wrote:

> I had a problem very much like this a few weeks ago.  When I came back 
> to my machine after leaving MM running overnight it would prompt me 
> for some or all of the passwords for the 5 IMAP accounts that I 
> normally use.  I discovered that if I just dismissed those dialogs MM 
> would try again and get the PW from the Keychain with no problem.  
> With some help I got MM to log what it was doing and discovered that 
> it was trying to access the keychain while the machine thought it was 
> in "dark wake" mode.  This is Apple's internal name for Power Nap.  
> There are two problems with this: I don't have Power Nap enabled and 
> MM wasn't doing anything that should require the GUI to be active.  I 
> gave up trying to find the problem and it eventually went away as 
> mysteriously as it started.
>
> I don't use SSH or NAT.  Some of the servers are on my local network 
> and some aren't.
>
>         Mike
>
> On 15 Jul 2020, at 12:22, Randall Gellens wrote:
>
>> I agree it seems (from what I can see) that MM thinks network 
>> problems are authentication problems. What's interesting is that the 
>> dialog box is for iCloud, which is not affected by the SSH issue. I 
>> also just now discovered that the dialog box can go away on its own. 
>> This morning, the laptop SSH connection had dropped, as has been 
>> happening the past few days. MM had the dialog box up asking for the 
>> iCloud password, and was displaying "(not available)" for those 
>> accounts that are reached over SSH (not iCloud). Without touching MM, 
>> I hunted in Keychain Access for the imap.mail.me.com password, and at 
>> one point when I went back to MM to check the exact wording in the 
>> dialog box, it had vanished. I hadn't yet reestablished the SSH, so 
>> the those accounts were still greyed out with "(not available)".
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