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

[Isaac Diaz]

Hello Aran,

I¹ve recently made a request with our Apple support engineer for this
exact missing feature. Once Apple acknowledged and recreated the missing
feature, the support engineer created a new feature request and it is now
with Apple Engineering. Traditionally, Apple will only provide feature
fixes in their most current version of OS X so we definitely will not see
a fix for 10.8 and chances of seeing any more feature fixes for 10.9 are
slim, while Apple works on 10.10. It is possible that we¹ll see the
feature in 10.10 but even so it is not guaranteed by Apple. Thomas Brand's
suggestion to lock the Keychain is not an ideal solution, but it is the
best workaround that I¹ve come across.


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Isaac Diaz
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Systems Engineering, Information Systems & Technology (IS&T)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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On 7/15/14, 1:18 PM, "Aran M Parillo" <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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