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Sudden Mail Password Issue?

Traverse

Traverse

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I am on Mavericks version 10.9.3

I never had any of the mail issues others had because my one school gmail account is used very basic (just inbox and occasional sending). However I just now I went to send an email to my professor and and I get a notice that mail cannot connect to the account and makes me re-enter my email password. I entered it three times and it came back as incorrect all three times.

I gave up and just logged into the web interface to send it, but I don't get this issue. It works fine on iOS, worked fine before, I still receive messages fine on the Mail.app, but it won't let me send. I thought they were suppose to have fixed these issues in a past update :confused:.

I deleted and re-entered the account in settings, but it didn't work.

Any ideas?
 
jlsm511

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Are all the server settings correct? I had the same issue and noticed the port it was trying to connect to was wrong.
 
Traverse

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jlsm511 said:
Are all the server settings correct? I had the same issue and noticed the port it was trying to connect to was wrong.
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I'll double check that, but they should be fine. I haven't messed with its default settings.
 
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kave

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I have seen this occur many times. Mail suddenly claims the password is wrong.
Must be a bug with 10.9.3.
 
jorgk

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kave said:
I have seen this occur many times. Mail suddenly claims the password is wrong.
Must be a bug with 10.9.3.
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Yes, and in my case the next thing to happen was that Mail usually crashed … it would not matter if I typed the password or refused (choosing 'cancel') - lucky guys you seem to be ;-)
 
Kentuckienne

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Took me couple hours to figure this out ... I had set up two-step authentication for some, but not all, of my gmail accounts. What I had to do was go to gmail and have it generate an application specific password for Mail on the Mac, and then put that password into the password field for BOTH smtp and pop servers for each affected account(mail/preferences/accounts). Then those worked. I also put that app-specific password into an account that wasn't using two-step authentication and broke it, but when I went back to the regular password it was fine.

I remember getting a specific error message from Mail that an application-specific password was required ...
 
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kave

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jorgk said:
Yes, and in my case the next thing to happen was that Mail usually crashed … it would not matter if I typed the password or refused (choosing 'cancel') - lucky guys you seem to be ;-)
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Exactly, always crash after first launch. Same on 10 computers I have updated.
 
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