UPDATE: I may have spoken too soon — I found a fix. I had to completely delete my entire Google account from my Mac in System Preferences > Accounts. Then I had to set up a brand new account, but NOT a Gmail account. Rather, I chose "Other" and then "Mail". Then I could enter a newly generated app-specific password (instead of the macOS implementation of 2-factor authentication, which hasn't worked since the day it was introduced). Then Mail re-downloaded what seemed like 70 years worth of emails, and hurray, after hours of messing around, I'm finally back to where I would have been had I ignored that stupid email.
Moral of the story: if it works, don't touch it.
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So Google sent me this idiotic email telling me that there's a security issue with my account. It said that I have app-specific passwords that I haven't used in ages, and that I should disable them. I disabled all the ones that haven't been used for the past few years.
Well Mail immediately told me that it can't connect to Gmail. So I guess Google messed up and told me I haven't used an app specific password that I actually was actively using. Anyway, I generated a new app-password for mail, and it accepted the password, and can receive emails just fine.
HOWEVER. I can't send emails. When I try, it tells me to type in my gmail password. When I type in the app-specific password, it says the password is wrong. When I type in my actual password, it says the same thing.
I have 2-step verification enabled. I'll try disabling that if nothing else works.
What the hell is going on?
Moral of the story: if it works, don't touch it.
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So Google sent me this idiotic email telling me that there's a security issue with my account. It said that I have app-specific passwords that I haven't used in ages, and that I should disable them. I disabled all the ones that haven't been used for the past few years.
Well Mail immediately told me that it can't connect to Gmail. So I guess Google messed up and told me I haven't used an app specific password that I actually was actively using. Anyway, I generated a new app-password for mail, and it accepted the password, and can receive emails just fine.
HOWEVER. I can't send emails. When I try, it tells me to type in my gmail password. When I type in the app-specific password, it says the password is wrong. When I type in my actual password, it says the same thing.
I have 2-step verification enabled. I'll try disabling that if nothing else works.
What the hell is going on?
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