Mail won't save password

[Martha Shannon]

Okay, I've been dealing with this for a long while, 9 months maybe?
Sometimes, and I haven't figured out a pattern, when I check mail, it prompts me for the password - sometimes repeatedly!
I've checked the box "save in keychain" thinking it will solve all my woes, but doesn't help.
I guess i should mention that I have BS dsl.
It doesn't do it for all accounts, just about half or one or two. Like I said, it seems random.
Today, it has done it twice on the main account holder
ugh!
Any ideas?

[Chris Waldrip]

What email account is it trying to connect to. This will happen sometimes if the email server isn't running. It typically happens to me when .Mac is down.

[Martha Shannon]

its my main account with BellSouth and I have one other that it checks too and i didn't get an error on it. In the past, I had three other accounts with them and every once in a while it would prompt for the password, even though I told it to save it. I downgraded to "lite" so I only have two email accounts on this particular machine, one on my laptop and one on my pc and one on my mom's computer - none of the others have had this issue, just the bellsouth ones on my G5...

[Chris Waldrip]

It sounds like it may be a service issue with BellSouth then. Can you check your mail via the web? If so then the next time you're prompted for your password check it through a web browser and see if there's a problem. Also, instead of just re-entering your password, restart Mail and see if it can connect then.