Mail Keeps Asking For Password – Take 2

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I permanently solved it using these instructions, in particular the ones under repair access control. In summary this is what you need to do:

Open your keychain on client.
Select login and Passwords respectively on the left panel boxes.
For each and every email account, get info (command I) and under Access Control, add the Mail.app.
I noticed I had more than one entry for each of my mail accounts, one having mail.app, and the other not. All of them need to have Mail.app added, if not already present.
Launch Mail, and if it does not readily connect, hit the ‘~’ sign next to the one of the inbox’es. Enter password(s) for one last time, then it sticks.

Yes this is a bug. Unfortunately, my respect for Apple has taken a serious hit in the last two years. It no longer ‘just works’.

Mail Keeps Asking For Password – Take 2