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Old 19 Nov 2017, 04:50 AM   #6
Himagain
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Thank you very much BritTim and emoore for your thoughtful assistance.

As is often the case, the answer is an embarrassingly simple, and self-inflicted inconvenience caused by carelessness. I did not notice that, when prompted for the IMAP and SMTP passwords, that "Use Password Manager to remember this password" was unchecked. Ugh!

I also did not realize that the Password Manager was handling the storage of this unique, Fastmail password. I've never had that box checked since I'm accustomed to using my normal email password and did not have that stored (except in my head) as a matter of security. It would have been helpful to me if the Fastmail instructions at https://www.fastmail.com/help/clients/apppassword.html included that stipulation. They only mention that you'll only have to enter it once, not indicating how that is supposed to happen. Perhaps I'll suggest that they include that in their instructions.

Thanks again for your time and thoughtfulness.
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