Configuring my gmail account on apple mail app 4.2

[drummerdimitri]

Hello people, I've been having some trouble configuring my gmail account on the mail app on my newly purchased MBP. When it asks me to input my full name, email address and password, i get the following message: "Logging in to the Gmail IMAP server “imap.gmail.com” failed. Make sure the user name and password you entered are correct, then click Continue. If the information isn’t correct, you cannot receive messages."
I have already configured my hotmail on mail and it works flawlessly, but does anyone know what might be the cause of this problem? Also, I have already enabled POP on my gmail account and IMAP was already enabled just for your information. Your help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!

 

[miles01110]

Looks like your username or password is incorrect. Try putting in the correct user account and password. Also, follow the instructions here:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=180188

 

[drummerdimitri]

I have followed the instructions precisely as written and strangely, it is unable to connect and retrieve my gmail inbox. I made sure the username and password are correct and by login in using the gmail website first. What might be the problem in your opinion? I am not using a proxy server if that's a possible solution. Thanks!

 

[iammike1]

Make sure the username you use in your configuration is your whole email.

The web login does not require this, IMAP does...so your username will be user@gmail.com and your password will be the same as the one on the website.

 

[miles01110]

Do you have IMAP turned on in your GMail settings?

 

[drummerdimitri]

Do you have IMAP turned on in your GMail settings?

Yes I have; It has been stated in my second post.

 

[drummerdimitri]

Never mind people, it started working out of nowhere. But now i have another problem: I want to configure my username@ymail.com in the mail app. Does anyone have a clue on how this is done? I've read somewhere that this cannot be done unless i upgrade to the yahoo plus service which requires a yearly fee. Please someone tell me this is not true. Thanks!

 

[GGJstudios]

Never mind people, it started working out of nowhere. But now i have another problem: I want to configure my username@ymail.com in the mail app. Does anyone have a clue on how this is done? I've read somewhere that this cannot be done unless i upgrade to the yahoo plus service which requires a yearly fee. Please someone tell me this is not true. Thanks!

Yes, it is true. Unlike Gmail and AOL, Yahoo! does not offer free POP or IMAP service. This means according to Yahoo!, unless you pay about $20 dollars a year, you cannot configure it to work with desktop email software like a Apple Mail.

 

[GamaFu]

Never mind people, it started working out of nowhere. But now i have another problem: I want to configure my username@ymail.com in the mail app. Does anyone have a clue on how this is done? I've read somewhere that this cannot be done unless i upgrade to the yahoo plus service which requires a yearly fee. Please someone tell me this is not true. Thanks!

It depends on where you are, or where you applied your account originally. Yahoo doesn't offer free access to their POP server in the US; however, it's free in Canada. It's most likely free as well in many other countries. You just have to look it up though.

If you're in Canada, here's how you set up:
Access Yahoo! Canada Mail in Other Client via POP

 

[-aggie-]

Never mind people, it started working out of nowhere. But now i have another problem: I want to configure my username@ymail.com in the mail app. Does anyone have a clue on how this is done? I've read somewhere that this cannot be done unless i upgrade to the yahoo plus service which requires a yearly fee. Please someone tell me this is not true. Thanks!

I’m having the same problem and it only occurred after I went to 10.6.3.

Logging in to the Gmail IMAP server “imap.gmail.com” failed. Make sure the user name and password you entered are correct, then click Continue. If the information isn’t correct, you cannot receive messages.

Edit: Not getting that any more, but now get:

Cannot send message using the server SMTP.GMAIL.COM

EDit 2: I finally got this to work after repeatedly deleting my account and starting over. I didn’t do anything different, but the SMTP finally worked. Who knows what happened?