1. Ipad Keeps Asking For Email Password

Troubleshooting steps and possible solutions to stop Outlook 2016 from continuously asking for Microsoft Exchange or Office 365 passwords. Since last week, a lot of our users are bothered by Outlook 2016's credentials prompt.

99 times out of 100 it's because the password being used is wrong.' This is, again by far, the most common cause for this happening. First, check the CAPS LOCK key on your keyboard. That's often a simple cause - you think you're typing in AReallyGreatPassword, when in fact you're typing in arEALLYgREATpASSWORD, which is most certainly not the same thing. Second, see if you can login to your email service's web interface right away. For people that have had their account hacked this behaviour is often the first symptom.

If you can't login to the web interface because it says your password is wrong, it's not your mail program that's at fault here; you have bigger problems. Bottom line: most of the time the problem is just getting the password wrong. Make sure it works elsewhere, and make sure you're typing it in properly. So, what if it's not the password?

The other 1% When you go to check (or send) email, your mail program such as Outlook connects to your mail server and presents it with your account ID and password. If the mail server rejects the connection for just about any reason the mail program will often pop up the password dialog. The mail program is basically saying 'huh, I couldn't login, the password must be wrong' - even when it's not. Like I said, not very helpful. So the list of things that could be wrong and cause that behaviour is long and varied.

Here are some ideas of things to check, or check into: • The mail server itself could be having problems. If your email had been working and this just suddenly started, I'd call this about half of the one percent case we're looking at. This isn't something you can fix. See if you can find online status of some sort from your email service provider.

Ipad Keeps Asking For Email Password

Typically, this just goes away after a while. • In the email program's account information that you provided to configure the email account, the POP3 or IMAP server name could be wrong. • In the email program's account information that you provided to configure the email account, the SMTP server name could be wrong. • In the email program's account information that you provided to configure the email account, your account user ID could be wrong. • Your internet connection could be down or it could be having problems. • A firewall could be blocking your attempts to connect to your mail server. And lots of other reasons.

And of course there's always malware to consider as well. But the important thing to realize is that this is not the email program's failure to remember your password. Instead, it's the email program's inability to connect and authenticate with your email service provider. And 99 times out of 100 it's because the password being used is wrong. Article - October 21, 2010.

Jeff Lentz October 22, 2010 10:50 AM I'm not sure I agree with the 99%/1% assessment. That would imply that 99% of people who have this problem have never had their e-mail working, and I find that hard to believe. Most people figure out they have a bad password as part of setting e-mail up in the first place. My e-mail works 'most' of the time, but I do occasionally get this request when my mail server is unresponsive. Houdini software free download for mac. The other common problem is that, during setup, people forget to check the box that says 'remember password'.

It is possible to set your e-mail program up to require authentication every time it checks. Kelley October 26, 2010 10:49 AM This happens with our pop3 business account occasionally. It's usually brief and albeit annoying, infrequent. The problem is that someone in the office invariably changes their password accidentally. When you keep outlook open all the time it pops that error message to the front of anything else you are working on in an active window by default.

If you are in the middle of typing something and hit enter before you realize the message was there you can easily alter your saved password. My question is can you keep that message from coming up active in front of everything?