Re: ? "Remember Password" only works intermittently (a.k.a. RP doesn't work)

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From: Steve Cochran (scochran_at_oehelp.com)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 05:42:01 -0400

You only have one?

"PA Bear" <PABear@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:#$AJOI8iEHA.3232@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> My CrystalBallİ knows that OE may have several passwords: A mail account
> password as well as a password to open your identity, if so enabled.
>
> Knowing your Windows version, as well as what password you're referring
to,
> is an important item you continue to omit.
> --
> ~PA Bear
>
> Alec S. wrote:
> > There seems to be some confusion. I just assumed that since I am
> > posting in this forum (ie6_outlookexpress) that people would understand
> > that
> > I am talking about the mail server password but some people seem to have
> > not
> > understood that.
> >
> > I'm going to try the solution in one of Frank's links (the Protected
> > Storage System Provider one) since it seems apt.
> >
> > "Alec S." <a@a.com> wrote in message
> > news:Oi73pDxiEHA.556@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've got Remember Password checked in Outlook Express but a lot of
> >> the
> >> time it doesn't seem to have any effect and I still get asked my
password
> >> anyway. This happens with all the accounts, but it only happens now
and
> >> then. There does not seem to be any sort of pattern to whether or not
I
> >> get
> >> asked.
> >>
> >> Why doesn't the Remember Password option work all the time? Is
there
> >> time-out that, that is, does the option only work for a while then
> >> automatically ask again? If so, then it's timing out often quick
> >> sometimes.
> >> Is there something that the mail server can do to force OE to ask? I
> >> know
> >> that it will ask regardless of the setting if the server says the
> >> password
> >> is incorrect but it's not, the passwords are all correct.
> >>
> >>
> >> How can I get OE to save (remember) my passwords and quit bugging
me
> >> permanently?
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Alec S.
> >> alec <@> synetech <.> cjb <.> net
>