#MAC MAIL PASSWORD NOT WORKING HOW TO#

Turn the caps lock off and try to type in your login password once again. When it is on, this significantly changes the look of your password, so it can’t be accepted as correct by the system.

Do you have uppercase and lowercase characters in your password? If the answer is yes, you need to take a look at the Caps Lock key.

In most cases, mistypes are the most common reason MacBook won’t accept password issues.

#MAC MAIL PASSWORD NOT WORKING HOW TO#

How to Fix MacBook Won’t Accept Password Problemīefore we hop on to more complicated instructions, it’s worth checking your keyboard for typing errors.

I now only use my btinternet e-address for communications with BT itself, but I do still occasionally receive - or from time to time fail to receive - other mail in my btinternet inbox from correspondents who have failed to take note of my 'change of e-address' messages. I have had to move almost all my emailing to gmail and have had repeatedly to inform all my contacts about this and change all accounts that I have with all manner of cultural and commercial bodies. This is all very well and very amusing and so on, but is it not scandalous that an organization of the scale and importance of BT has had this intermittent fault for years and has failed to rectify it? There was talk at one time of all BT/Yahoo! customers being transferred to just BT, but that 'went away'. Since then it has basically been working, though with occasional malfunctions lasting from an hour to several hours. I had barely finished sighing with relief before it went off again for a day or thereabouts and then came on again. After several days, my password suddenly began to be accepted again by the BT system.

I, on the other hand, followed the alterntive advice earlier in this string and did nothing. The fact that one of you can access the email and the other not could mean that the old password still works, and perhaps not altered the password on their phone? There are quite a few peculiar scenarios with the mail system and device access. Then move onto the next device.Īs this has been more than a couple of days, the thing to do is change password again - but making sure the above is followed. Then try one at a time altering the password (without checking emails first of course). Change the password and then wait at least 20 minutes before trying a device app/client. The thing to remember when changing password, is to stop all devices from auto-syncing with the server. The 2 day thing is not actually correct, a password reset takes seconds to register for webmail, and can be a few minutes for app/client access using pop3/imap access. Just wondering at what point I need to start taking more action. I have not changed any settings other than the password and checked and double checked them all to be ok. How long does it usually take for the 'password reset ' to work? I have read up to 2 days is this correct? I can only access email via the web link.

I have said my say about BT's help systems in the past and shall refrain from repeating myself, but I should be very grateful if someone reading this cri de coeur here could offer some have the same problem after a password change 2 days ago, while my partner can access the same email address via his phone I cannot yet. When I repeated that I had already tried that, he informed me that he was not trained to do anything further. Despite my telling him that I am an experienced user of my computer and smartphone and, in particular, that I have had more than enough experience of deleting my mail accounts on both my devices and then setting them up again, he sent me instructions for setting up a mail account on my Mac. Today I tried 'chatting' with a BT adviser. Fortunately I also have a Gmail account and most of my contacts now use that, but for certain purposes, including communications (such as bills) with BT itself, I still use the BT mail system. I once more deleted my BT mail accounts on both devices, but now I cannot reinstall them at all on either device. in my browser) - but not in the mail clients on either of my devices.

I did so, and the new password works perfectly well for 'MyBT' and for my BT webmail (i.e. This time it stopped on 1 May and has not restarted, so I decided to try changing my password. And for many years the BT system has every few weeks stopped accepting my password for a day or a few days and then spontaneously accepted it again, or been persuaded to do so by my deleting and reinstalling my BT mail accounts on both my devices. I have had a BT landline and BT mail account (not a Yahoo! one) for many years. This is an age-old problem, which has now got disastrously worse.

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