Dec 10, 2018 - To resolve this issue in Outlook 2016 for Mac, install the February 2017. To work around this issue, delete any cached passwords for your account,. Select the Finder application, click Utilities on the Go menu, and then. Changing Your Password on. Outlook for Mac. Outlook Setup 1. Click on Outlook on the upper left corner, 2. Go to Preferences and click once. Select Accounts. The Password field will have: •••••••• Change the ••••••••to your New Password.
After configuring Outlook 2011 (Mac) to access two IMAP accounts hosted by my hosting provider (Dreamhost) AND Outlook is able to access the account, after a little while I will constantly get notified with the following: The server for account ' returned the error 'Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.' Your username/password or security settings may be incorrect. Would you like to try re-entering your password? It turns out that Outlook is disabling the authentication settings on the outgoing server - changing my setting from ' Use Incoming Server Info' to ' None'. I seriously doubt this is a Mac problem seeing as how the Outlook account configuration is an Outlook responsibility. Once I corrected the changes, the messages stop.
However, they do reappear from time to time. I know Outlook is a 'champ' with Exchange, but this kind of carelessness, on the part of Microsoft, is a reminder of whom Microsoft is looking after and it isn't the consumer. Has anyone else seen this behavior?.With Outlook open, use Finder to select the Applications folder, then the MSOffice folder, then holding the Control key down select the Outlook 'O' icon, and select 'Get Info' from the list. Within the Get Info screen presented, check the 'Prevent App Nap' box.
Then close Finder, close Oulook and then re-open Outlook and your problem will be solved. This action prevents the Outlook app from sleeping under Mavericks control which was designed to save power consumption, however Microsoft did not modify Outlook to conform to this feature so you must check and activate the 'Prevent App Nap'. Here's a link to that thread with a picture: I did this yesterday and have been running Outlook with ZERO ERRORS since. I hope this is helpful for anyone running in to the issue of Outlook continually asking for your passwords repeatedly, or appearing as if it's forgetting your passwords. It drove me crazy but I'm glad this fixed the issue for now.' After configuring Outlook 2011 (Mac) to access two IMAP accounts hosted by my hosting provider (Dreamhost) AND Outlook is able to access the account, after a little while I will constantly get notified with the following: The server for account ' returned the error 'Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.' Your username/password or security settings may be incorrect.
Would you like to try re-entering your password? It turns out that Outlook is disabling the authentication settings on the outgoing server - changing my setting from ' Use Incoming Server Info' to ' None'. I seriously doubt this is a Mac problem seeing as how the Outlook account configuration is an Outlook responsibility. Once I corrected the changes, the messages stop.
However, they do reappear from time to time. I know Outlook is a 'champ' with Exchange, but this kind of carelessness, on the part of Microsoft, is a reminder of whom Microsoft is looking after and it isn't the consumer.
Has anyone else seen this behavior? Thanks for the tip, Ed & to Bill for starting it. I was thinking it was totally flaky until I read this. The window for Outlook had to be closed for the warning to happen, plus Outlook had to be running! Will file feedback to M$ on this issue. Doubt they will fix it in this release but you never know, maybe a maintenance release. With the OS changes (and Yosemite on the way), assuming they still support us, 'lowly Mac Users', maybe in future upgrades.
Speaking of which, does anyone know, is this product for Mac going be end-of-lived? Updated with the new OS X recently announced, now in Public Beta (Yosemite)?
One thing Outlook does that Mac's Mail client doesn't, BTW, is work correctly with large files of (archived) messages in commercial IMAP accounts/servers.Mail doesn't handle those types of issues (EVEN AFTER RECENT UPDATES) well at all in the current Mavericks OS X version. And you're hearing this from a died in the wool Mac-Geek. Works OK in SOME IMAP servers, but not in most commercial servers (Windows or Linux). It seems a known issue over there.