Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Why does Mail hate Gmail?

ModestPenguin

ModestPenguin

macrumors 6502
Original poster
Mar 5, 2006
437
0
OKC
Mail and gmail are currently at odds. as in hating each other. I can go to gmail.com and access my account and use my email but if i try and access it through mail it gripes and moans about server errors that arent real. I checked and rechecked my settings and im certain it just hates me.

help?

please?
 
I had the same issue with mine, so I changed over to Entourage, and it works perfect.
 
i had the same problem as you, for like a day, now Mail and my Gmail account work perfectly, try heading over here
Its worked fine for me, i dont know whats wrong.
 
It used to work fine but the last two days its been periodically flippin out. all the settings on both ends are correct.
 
celebrian23 said:
Yeah mail wasn't cooperating with me. I gave up on mail for thunderbird instead
Click to expand...

Thunderbird is not working for me!

Macbook newbie ...so couldnt figure a way out of the

" Connecting to smto.gmail.com " message that keeps coming

should I change firewall settings or something...


btw I can recieve messages...cant send ny...so all i need is the smtp settings for the latest version of thunderbird...could nyone send it for me!!
 
It works perefect for me. The Help page was, well, helpful. Remenber to go to your GMail account and setup and save the POP choices.
 
Mail used to hate Gmail, it used to always want me to enter the password. But I think after 10.4.5 I didn't have the problems anymore.
 
I did...that's why I was able to receive emails .....but for some reason...it jus shows connecting to smtp.gmail.com forevr if i try to send some....and finally quiiting on me saying there is a send message error..whats the smtp settings you are using?
 
Don't know what you all are talking about. I have two gmail accounts that I manage through mail.app using POP access. Has worked like a charm.
 
I've been using Mail with Gmail for a while with no problems.

If you are having problems sending mail out, then try the following (from the commandline:

telnet smtp.gmail.com 587

If you can connect (you should see a line like "220 mx.gmail.com ESMTP...") then you can rule out any network connectivity problem. If the above fails, then the problems are not Mail specific.

Also, make sure your user name is the full address (with the "@gmail.com" at the end) for any authentication. Basically, follow the instructions in the Gmail help section.
 
I also use gmail through Mail w/out any problems. Too reiterate, just follow Google's instructions for setting up pop access in Apple's Mail and it should work like a charm. You do need to follow their instructions to the letter.
 
Duff-Man says...aside from the occasional blip I have had no problems with Mail and Gmail at all..works perfectly...as suggested, go through the settings again and make sure you have it all correct....oh yeah!
 
bigboy99 said:
It works perefect for me. The Help page was, well, helpful. Remenber to go to your GMail account and setup and save the POP choices.
Click to expand...
exactly. google walks you step by step.
 
Never any problems with Gmail and Mail

Love Google, but love Apple even more. Let them work good together!
 
I use Mail with Gmail, and ocassionally Mail will pop open a window asking me for my password. I have no idea why it does this. It seems arbitrary. The even weirder thing is, every time I then enter my password, it just pops the same window open again, as if it didn't accept my password. So I hit the 'Cancel' button to make the window go away, and it takes my Gmail account offline. Then I right click on my gmail mailbox in Mail, and take it back online, and then it works fine - without prompting me for my password. Anyone have this issue? I think it's got more to do with Mail than with Gmail, because I seem to remember it happening before I ever had Gmail.
 
Invizzible said:
I use Mail with Gmail, and ocassionally Mail will pop open a window asking me for my password. I have no idea why it does this. It seems arbitrary. The even weirder thing is, every time I then enter my password, it just pops the same window open again, as if it didn't accept my password. So I hit the 'Cancel' button to make the window go away, and it takes my Gmail account offline. Then I right click on my gmail mailbox in Mail, and take it back online, and then it works fine - without prompting me for my password. Anyone have this issue? I think it's got more to do with Mail than with Gmail, because I seem to remember it happening before I ever had Gmail.
Click to expand...

Yeah every now and then it will reject my password too, using Outlook 2003, so it must be a Gmail server issue.
 
Invizzible said:
I use Mail with Gmail, and ocassionally Mail will pop open a window asking me for my password. I have no idea why it does this. It seems arbitrary. The even weirder thing is, every time I then enter my password, it just pops the same window open again, as if it didn't accept my password. So I hit the 'Cancel' button to make the window go away, and it takes my Gmail account offline. Then I right click on my gmail mailbox in Mail, and take it back online, and then it works fine - without prompting me for my password. Anyone have this issue? I think it's got more to do with Mail than with Gmail, because I seem to remember it happening before I ever had Gmail.
Click to expand...

exact same thing happens to me.
 
I've been having a similar issue. Have been using Gmail with Mail for almost two years, yet over the past couple weeks it's gone sour. Mail still gets mail for some of my other accounts without problems, but spins the little working thing on Gmail's inbox for ages, then downloads nothing.

The settings are definitely correct, and it's worked flawlessly for ages prior to now... At present it's just plain annoying, as I but at least I can access my mail through a my browser...

I don't know why this might be happening, although I'm sure someone will suggest a "full backup, then archive and install the OS"

Also, and probably unrelated, my Airport used to see two neighbor's networks, now it sees none. I blame the heat and humidity for that one...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back