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1. #EMAIL KEEPS ASKING FOR PASSWORD MAC UPDATE#
2. #EMAIL KEEPS ASKING FOR PASSWORD MAC MAC#

Would you rather delete everything and start from scratch instead of decluttering? Try the Reset My Default Keychains option then. Use the method shown above to take a peek at passwords so you can confirm if they're current. If you need some help finding all the really old passwords, click on the Date Modified column header to line up the oldest entries first.īe extremely careful while deleting passwords! Check that you aren't throwing away a current password entry or any other important ones.

#EMAIL KEEPS ASKING FOR PASSWORD MAC MAC#

You'll have to declutter the keychain yourself using the Delete context menu item for entries. Multiple passwords in keychain: Mac Mail keeps asking for password, then get unable to verify password This can happen if Mac Mail is more than one entry in Keychain for each in/out entry and it is using the wrong one. But when Keychain insists on saving both old passwords and their updated counterparts in some cases, you might run into authentication problems. It probably contains passwords for accounts and services that you gave up on a long time ago.įor the most part, this clutter is harmless and you can leave it alone. Your login keychain can seem messy at a glance. If you want the app to generate a password for you, click on the key icon next to the New Password field. In the prompt that appears, enter the requisite password fields and hit the OK button. For this you'll need to click on Edit > Change Password for Keychain "login". Next it's time to bring up the dialog box for changing the password. Now, under Keychains in the sidebar, select login. To get started, open the Keychain Access app from Applications/Utilities or bring it up with Spotlight.

Of course, you'll need to know the old password as well to make this tweak.

#EMAIL KEEPS ASKING FOR PASSWORD MAC UPDATE#

The solution here is to update the keychain password to match the new password of your user account. Now let's get back to the original problem. You'll have to import them from the old keychain. Even if the keychain password now matches your account password, your password entries are gone. This automatic keychain creation is only partially helpful. Your old one sticks around you'll find it under ~/Library/Keychains, with the word renamed in its name. When you change the user account password on High Sierra, macOS creates a new keychain for you.

As a result, macOS prompts you to enter that when any function requires access to the keychain. The reason for this is that the login keychain still works with your old password. It occurs when you have changed the password for your macOS user account. You might encounter this problem on macOS versions older than High Sierra.