[Macpartners] force mail (on exchange) to prompt for password

[Thomas Brand]

Good afternoon,

Not a isolated solution for just Mail.app, but you can make it so that your keychain locks after a period of inactivity.

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11785

You can change the keychain lock settings to reduce the number of requests for your keychain password.

  1.  Open Keychain Access.
  2.  In the sidebar, click All Items in the Category section, and then select your login keychain.
  3.  Choose Edit > “Change Settings for Keychain ‘login’.”To reduce the number of requests for your keychain password, deselect the “Lock after [number] minutes of inactivity” checkbox, or increase the number of minutes. You can also deselect the “Lock when sleeping” checkbox.

Thomas Brand

On Jul 15, 2014, at 1:18 PM, Aran M Parillo <aran at mit.edu<mailto:aran at mit.edu>> wrote:

Hi,

Is there there a means for forcing the Mail.app on 10.8 and above to
prompt for the users password each time Mail is opened?  It appears that
once authenticated, the password is stored in the keychain.

I do know that Outlook affords the user the ability to select NOT to
remember the password, so if Microsoft is doing it, it should be
technically possible for apple's client. :-)

In my own tests I stopped short of converting the users mail setup to the
imap port to exchange but am pretty sure Mail.app will behave the same
(saving pwd).

I guess I'm looking for confirmation/affirmation of this, uh, feature.
*cough*

Cheers,
Aran



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