Not had my iBook booted up for a while and discovered today that my gmail isn't downloading through Mail
Anyone still able to access gmail using mail on Tiger OS?
If you mean Mail retrieving/sending Gmail e-mail via IMAP/POP3, just be sure to open Gmail on a browser and go into your account settings.
There is a security toggle buried there which must be manually enabled to allow “less secure” applications, such as older applications not using the latest TLS/STARTTLS, in order to retrieve and send Gmail via a third-party application. (Mail, in this case, is considered by Google to be a third-party application.)
Once that toggle is selected (Google, last time I did this, insisted this wasn’t “as safe”, but for the time being, they’re allowing it), you
should be able to use Mail, even in Tiger, to retrieve e-mail from Gmail.
One note of caution, however: if you check your e-mail via Mail or another e-mail client infrequently, such as less than every few days or perhaps a week, Google will automatically revert that toggle setting for your account back to prohibiting third-party applications using older, less-secure methods for authentication. It’s a hassle requiring one to repeat the above steps.
