Setting up Mail to access your GMail account.
I received an email from Charles Pazos this past weekend asking how to set up Mail to check your GMail account. Here you go, Charles.
From Google’s help page :
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Open Apple Mail.
Click ‘Mail,’ and select ‘Preferences…’
Open the ‘Accounts’ tab, and click the plus sign (+) along the bottom to add a new account.
Enter ‘pop.gmail.com’ in the ‘Incoming Mail Server:’ field.
Enter your Gmail username (including ‘@gmail.com’) in the ‘User Name:’ field.
Enter your Gmail password in the ‘Password:’ field.
Select ‘Add Server…’ from the pop-up labeled ‘Outgoing Mail Server,’ and enter ’smtp.gmail.com’ in the ‘Outgoing Mail Server:’ field.
Enter ‘587′ in the ‘Server port:’ field.
Check the box next to ‘Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).’
Select ‘Password’ next to ‘Authentication:’ and enter your Gmail username (including ‘@gmail.com) and Gmail password.
Click ‘OK.’
Click ‘Advanced’ and check the box next to ‘Use SSL.’ (The port changes to ‘995.’)
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I’ve followed these directions for my two machines that I’ve set up GMail on, and had no problems. Good luck!
l0ne on May 16th, 2005 at 8:11 am
You must also remember to turn on POP3 in Gmail’s Preferences if it isn’t already.
Oz on May 17th, 2005 at 6:17 am
Can you do the same for yahoo at all? only i have about four yahoo accounts that i want to bring together, but for some bizzare reason entourage doesn’t want to let me – only letting me on one of my yahoo accounts, and my hotmail account. So can you show the instructions for using mail with a yahoo account?
Rich Trouton on May 17th, 2005 at 6:55 am
Yahoo has POP3 setup instructions set up here: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/
Since Yahoo only has POP3 access for their paying customers, and I’m not one, I haven’t tested theirs like I have GMail’s.
John on May 23rd, 2005 at 1:18 pm
I’ve followed the steps but a weird thing keeps happening. I’ll click on get mail and it won’t pull down the new mail I have on my Gmail account. I can see the new mail using my normal Gmail account, it just isn’t being pulled down right away into my Apple Mail client.
Any ideas?
Rich Trouton on May 23rd, 2005 at 2:20 pm
John,
Are you able to download your GMail mail, only with a delay between the time it shows up in the webmail and when you’re able to download it into your Mail client? Or is it not downloading period?
John on May 23rd, 2005 at 2:47 pm
I am to eventually download it, but it could take several hours from when I can see it in on the web version of Gmail until I can access it on my Client (even after clicking on “get mail now”).
I don’t have this problem with my .Mac or my Yahoo accounts… just Gmail. Very strange.
Hillel on June 6th, 2005 at 8:21 pm
All I want to do is set my “MAIL” so that it will send mail through my yahoo mail account. I’m perfectly happy using yahoo to manage my mail. But everytime I click on a mail address on the internet (mailto: etc…) it opens up “MAIL” . I’d like to be able to actually compose the message using MAIL and send it out through my yahoo account. But when I do this, I get a message saying, Error! Message could not be appended to the Outbox. and it doesn’t send it! Any ideas for a fix, or how I can make yahoo mail, not Aplle “Mail”, open when I click on a mailto address ??
Josh Pigford on June 6th, 2005 at 10:15 pm
Hillel, I believe you must have a Yahoo “Pro” account or whatever their pay service is, to be able to have any sort of POP interaction with your Yahoo account.
Rich Trouton on June 6th, 2005 at 10:46 pm
Hillel,
Since the mailto: links prompt for your default email program to open a new email compose window, rather than allowing you to open a specific webpage, the best way that I can think of to solve your problem is to upgrade your Yahoo account to a paid account, which will then allow you to have POP access, like Josh mentions. You can then set up Mail to use your Yahoo account to send and receive your email using Apple’s Mail.
Hillel on June 7th, 2005 at 8:14 pm
thank Josh and Rich for your responses.
Actually I am a paying yahoo member, having their “mail plus” service. So I’d be grateful to hear from others who have actually set up Yahoo and Mail to talk to each other!
I’ve trying to set up mail to send through my yahoo account, but with no luck. I keep getting an Error message saying that the message could not be appended to the Outbox. I’ve tried to follow the instructions on Yahoo about setting up Mail, but they don’t really support Mac setup. Here’s what I’ve got:
account type: POP
incoming Mail server: pop.mail.yahoo.com
user id and password: mine
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.mail.yahoo.com
server port: 25
SSL is unchecked
authentification: none (though I also tried it with my user id and password typed in.
still, I can’t use Mail to send messages! I keept getting that Outbox error! Also, mail coming in to Yahoo, never gets to Mail, though I don’t really care about that….
Thusitha Gajanayake on August 5th, 2005 at 2:53 am
I followed the instruction to set gmail into mail. But each time it asks the passord and then when enter password, the message comes saying password rejected ?
Any ideas ?
Bald Man on August 13th, 2005 at 7:49 pm
I’ll echo T.G. and take it one further. I have three user accounts on my Mac: one for me, one for my wife, and one for my daughter. All of us have gmail accounts, which I want to manage with Mail. My account works fine, both sending and receiving. My wife’s works fine. My daughter’s, however, will only receive mail. Whenever I attempt to send a message I get:
The SMTP server “smtp.gmail.com” rejected the password for user “samanthaaldrich@gmail.com”Please re-enter your password, or cancel.
Help?
Rich Trouton on August 14th, 2005 at 6:26 am
Thusitha and Bald Man,
The main thing I can think of is to double-check the ports that you’re using.
SMTP: Port 587, with “Use Secure Sockets Layer” checked.
POP: Under the Advanced tab, set it for Port 995 and make sure “Use SSL” is checked.
Erin Butler on August 16th, 2005 at 4:10 pm
I just bought this mac…and i dont have a .mac account. I have highspeed internet access and i have always used hotmail or gmail. Can I use mail without getting a .mac account? Or does this just not work wihtout paying extra to use mail, either through .mac or gmail or hotmail?
Bald Man on August 16th, 2005 at 4:16 pm
Everything was set up correctly, but for some reason gmail didn’t want to send things right away. The messages were delivered a couple days later.
Sai on August 16th, 2005 at 5:13 pm
Hi guys, how do i set up my hotmail account to be retrieved in my “Mail” program on my mac? also what are the port settings for Yahoo and Hotmail?
e.g. for Gmail:
MTP: Port 587, with “Use Secure Sockets Layer” checked.
POP: Under the Advanced tab, set it for Port 995 and make sure “Use SSL” is checked.
do you know where i can find out yahoo and hotmail’s port numbers?
cheers
Josh Pigford on August 16th, 2005 at 6:19 pm
I’m not sure how hotmail is, but I know that unless you have a pro yahoo account, you can’t have POP access.
bob on August 21st, 2005 at 8:34 pm
its strong
Georgia on September 6th, 2005 at 2:25 pm
I’m trying to send my gmail to my apple mail. It won’t seem to work. Everything is set up correctly but it keeps telling me my password is wrong… any ideas?
Bald Man on September 6th, 2005 at 3:55 pm
Georgia, I get this every now and then on one of our three family accounts. I don’t know what the issue is, but it seems to self-resolve. (Most of the ideas that I’ve heard are something like server congestion, perhaps at the gmail end.)
Alex on September 19th, 2005 at 1:56 am
You don’t need a paying account for yahoo pop access at all. I have a free yahoo mail account and i can access it through Outlook 2003 with no problems (after setting the outbound port to 587). You just gotta go into the mail options at mail.yahoo.com and enable the pop access …..
Hanad on September 24th, 2005 at 11:22 pm
Hey guys, it seems like i’m still running into the same problems with my Mac Mail as well. I have set it up to recieve gmail and it asks me to enter my password, than it keeps rejecting it just like previously mentioned. Anybody have ideas??? And is there a way to setup hotmail as well?
Mary on September 26th, 2005 at 3:07 pm
Hello all, I’m also trying to get my Entourage 2004 mail system up and running and have had no problem setting up my Hotmail account or my university account, but I don’t understand how to get access to my Yahoo account.
Alex how did you enable POP access in your Yahoo options? I see there are various ways to access things if you are using Outlook, did you do it through these options since you are using the Outlook system? I wonder if they have any settings for Entourage??
John on October 14th, 2005 at 11:18 am
Gmail won’t download at all ? I’ve been successfully using Apple Mail to download from my Gmail account – but over the last couple of days the process has dragged to a complete halt. I tell Apple Mail to “Get Mail” – the messages displayed then show that my password has been sent and that Mail is “preparing to receive messages.” This message remains for +/- 30 seconds, while the little wheel spins on the right side of the screen, and then — nothing. The process either has timed out, or errored out, or something – but no mail is downloaded. Once in a while it will say “Dowloading X out of 163 messages” – but it never downloads more than a few at a time. I can view my Gmail account via the web and see that there are a couple hundred messages there for me – but it seems like they never will download.
Can anyone offer any suggestions? My account is configured exactly as specified at the beginning of this thread.
Thanks.
Thusitha Gajanayake on October 17th, 2005 at 9:33 am
I found the way. It works perfect on Mac.
Open the link http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13275
Follow carefully all instruction
Finally DO NOT FORGET THE LAST STEP
(THIS IS IMPORTANT)
Log in to your Gmail account.
Click ‘Settings’ at the top of any Gmail page.
Click ‘Forwarding and POP’ in the orange ‘Mail Settings’ box.
Select ‘Enable POP for all mail’ or ‘Enable POP for mail that arrives from now on.’
Choose the action you’d like your Gmail messages to take after they are accessed with POP.
Configure your POP client* and click ‘Save Changes
Papatak on October 19th, 2005 at 2:57 am
Try to use Opera, is much fast client and there is a lot of possibilityes
M2W on October 21st, 2005 at 11:59 am
http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13275
John on October 24th, 2005 at 3:59 pm
Thanks to those who have sent responses on configuring the GMail end of things.
Unfortunately I had already done that.
I can now see that I have 435 messages waiting for me on my GMail account, but Apple Mail will download maybe 5 of them at a time. To make this happen I have to manually click on “Get Mail” – sometimes several times per download. At this rate I may get everything downloaded by…Christmas.
Any other suggestions?
Andy on October 27th, 2005 at 4:47 pm
Regarding a Gmail pop3 delay- It does seem to be the case that mail arriving in your gmail webmail is there sometimes days before it is downloadable via pop3 – and yes I have configured my mail client correctly ;) Interesting point is that if you jump back into your gmail settings and select the “download all messages”(or some such) option the new mail (and sadly any old mail) is immediatley retrievable. – Looks like the issue has been raised though – see this entry in the google groups section: “http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Past-discussions/browse_thread/thread/35a673a47f9a281e/8b20345f713338ef?q=pop3+delay&rnum=10#8b20345f713338ef”
Im a linux user not a mac user so I cant comment on Apple Mail – but everything used to work great on Evolution and Mozilla-Thunderbird.. (but now with the delay of course)
Rachid on November 8th, 2005 at 3:35 pm
I am currently using hotmail, but notice that many people use Gmail now. I am not a computer freak and hence needs to know how to set up a Gmail account. I could not find therequired link on this page. Please email me instructions to my hotmail account zeffaner@hotmail.com
Thanks
Rachid
Rose on December 28th, 2005 at 4:30 pm
Re: Mail keeps rejecting password — keeps saying that POP server is rejecting password:
I had the same problem and I tried this. So far, it seems to have worked:
Go to your “Keychain access” in your Mac computer.
Click at the top of the screen where it says “Window”
Go down to where it says “Keychain First Aid” and click on that.
Type in your password (for your Mac computer not the e-mail password)
Then click on Verify and click Start.
If the verification fails (as mine did) then click the button that says “Repair” and click “Start”
That will fix something.
RP on January 6th, 2006 at 12:26 am
I got a problem in adding gmail account to my apple mail..it says …Trying to log into the POP server “pop.gmail.com” has failed. Please make sure the username and password are correct. If you continue, you may not be able to receive any email. i did evrything fine
SK on January 13th, 2006 at 4:52 am
Same problem as RP. Followed gmail instructions to setup POP on MAC Mail but connection to incoming and outgoing server fails.
Any suggestions
Andy on January 15th, 2006 at 1:39 pm
I have had similar problems and have been looking at this for a while now. The strange thing is POP3 access to gmail servers when correctly configured (i.e. secure smtp on port 465 and pop on port 995, correct username etc..) works on my linux desktop and my powerbook. However when I change my gmail password it stops working and I have issues logging in for a period (error is usually unable to log into pop.gmail.com, incorrect user/password) which resolves itself after about a week.. smtp access is fine regardless of a password change so that doesnt help.
Anyone else with the same issue after a password change? As I said everything else works fine.
Andy Halsall
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indroo on March 30th, 2006 at 1:03 am
I had 2 gmail account. The first setting works fine. But not the other, its always gave a password rejected by pop.gmail.com message. I still dont get it, all setting of the two account are perfectly the same, except the id pass. Can anybody explain this?
Charles Pazos on April 10th, 2006 at 12:52 am
Hey, thanks alot! You are a scholar and a gentleman. (Did I get that saying right?)
Christina on April 26th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
Hey guys!
I was wondering if anyone has figured out how to set up a POP account through mail for hotmail accounts. I was a long time PC user and I just switched over to mac when I bought my macbook pro. I was used to being spoiled on the PC’s of having my hotmail imported into my outlook.
If anyone knows how to get hotmail in, you would make my day!
Rich Trouton on April 27th, 2006 at 7:01 am
Christina,
You should be able to make this work, if you’re using the paid version of Hotmail (aka Hotmail Plus), using the Httpmail plugin for Apple Mail.
In order for this to work, you’ll need to first set Mail to open using Rosetta. To do this, make sure that you’ve quit out of Mail, then find and click once to select the icon for the Mail application inside the Applications folder. Once you’ve done that, choose “Get Info” from the File menu, tick the “Open using Rosetta” box then close the window. Once you’ve done that, install the Httpmail plugin and configure it according to the instructions that are provided along with the Httpmail plugin installer.
gailwinship2006 on May 6th, 2006 at 12:50 pm
i would like be have a gmail account
Andy on May 6th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
gailwinship2006 – post an email address (obfusticate it a bit tho) and I’m sure someone will be able to send you an invite.
Andy H
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imhere on May 6th, 2006 at 8:09 pm
why won’t my settings change in gmail. I am trying to set up to use entourage and it has partly worked but not all of my messages have been moved over and when I check that gmail is right it hasn’t saved preferences, it is strange. Also, I’ve tried sending myself a message from entourage and it goes to my gmail but not to entourage. Can anyone help with what I might be doing wrong.
PAUL TRIPP on May 18th, 2006 at 10:13 pm
can you give me instructions for
INCOMING MAIL SERVER
if I have YAHOO EMAIL?
I’VE TRIED A HALF DOZEN AND NOTHING WORKS.
PAUL
Andy H on May 19th, 2006 at 4:02 am
I dont use yahoo, but a quick look at their help pages suggests that you require the “Yahoo Mail Plus” service (which I assume you pay for..) Here is the extract:
Q: Can I use Netscape, Eudora, or Outlook to send and read my Yahoo! Mail?
A: Yes! Yahoo! Mail users can read their Yahoo! Mail messages in Netscape, Eudora, or Outlook by subscribing to the Yahoo! Mail Plus service. This service allows you to use Outlook, Eudora, or another POP3 client to access and manage your Yahoo!..
If you are not a Mail Plus Subscriber I think you are out of luck. If you are then the following should work…
POP3 server: pop.mail.yahoo.comPOP3 port: 110Mailbox: (my yahoo username)Password: (my yahoo password)
Anyway, good luck.
Andy Hictsc
indroo on May 19th, 2006 at 12:37 pm
Right, you have to subscribe paid service of yahoo.com to use its POP3. But if you prepare to use free service, start sign-up new account from regional yahoo such as yahoo.com.sg yahoo.com.au yahoo.co.id etc. They still provide free POP3 service. Now you can alternately use your mail client apps. G’luck!
(i)
Andy H on May 19th, 2006 at 1:52 pm
Note to the above, this is true, however don’t rely on it to stay thet way… POP3 access is one of those really useful features that providers (including yahoo) offer until they get a decent userbase (some of whom use the facility), and then promptly drop it on “standard” accounts and charge for it by making you upgrade.
Gmail is the better option (as long as you think that google are more ethical / less likley to change their T&C’s / not likley to start charging you for access) I use gmail have done for some time now, and if it stays how it is (and I think it will) then its the best there is.
sorry for the plug, but its true, I trust google with my mail… Never trusted anyone else with it before.
Andy HIctsc
Kara on May 25th, 2006 at 8:49 pm
I am having the same problem as indroo. Anyone look into this yet?
“The first setting works fine. But not the other, its always gave a password rejected by pop.gmail.com message. I still dont get it, all setting of the two account are perfectly the same, except the id pass. Can anybody explain this?”
Chintalkumar D.Patel on June 9th, 2006 at 10:16 am
Guys. I am trying to add Gmail into Yahoo Mail! Can anyone please help me out! How to do it? Please! okay! Peace
Jade on June 13th, 2006 at 4:18 am
Does anyone know how to add my hotmail account into Mail? PLEASE HELP!!!
Giorgio Falls on June 18th, 2006 at 12:47 am
hi to all~~~!!!
I did all the things google says in order to using gmail with Mail app in OSX.
I can get my email but i cannot send emails.They just stay in the outbox.Please help me!!!
mustafa maluka on June 21st, 2006 at 12:13 pm
thanks for this. i’m sorted now :D
selikm on July 1st, 2006 at 2:23 am
does anyone know how to add my Gmail account to yahoo mail accounts? please help, ty
Jamie on July 4th, 2006 at 7:52 pm
hey,
I am trying to get my mail to work with Hotmail and I don’t know how. I don’t have hotmail plus, so I don’t think I apply to the intructions given by Rich. I would greatly apprecialte some help. thanks!
Rich Trouton on July 7th, 2006 at 10:15 am
Jamie,
The only ways you’ll be able to download your Hotmail mail into Mail is to get Hotmail Plus, or use a forwarding program to forward your Hotmail mail to another separate (non-Hotmail) email address that can be accessed from Mail. Short of those two, you won’t be able to do what you want with Mail.
alison lubo on July 9th, 2006 at 12:07 am
oh so you need to have a paid account (yahoo) to have it set up to your mac computer mail program???
narsing on July 20th, 2006 at 5:40 am
hi
Courtney on July 25th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
Hi,
So I’m having the password rejected problem with GMail. I tried the keychain verification thing, but there were no problems there. any suggestions?
Annie on July 28th, 2006 at 10:44 am
I’m also having the “password rejected” problem with my gmail account. This started happening this morning, completely out of the blue, after it has been working perfectly fine. Any suggestions would be appreciated!!
Annie on July 28th, 2006 at 11:10 am
Update: the issue seems to have resolved itself spontaneously. It was down for a couple of hours. Any ideas as to why this might be happening?
ed on August 8th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
I have the same problem on occasion. Could it be that, with a free service like this, if google are low on available bandwidth this is one of the first things to go?
Sachin on August 8th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
Hi all,
plz tell me can i access gmail or any other mailling site with EMail Clients e.g. OutLook Express or Fudera.
while i have not any Official EMail Account means pop3 server address.
Is Outlook support for domestic purpose?
please let me soon.
surya on August 12th, 2006 at 5:23 am
hello
i have a problem.please solve it
while i am accessing a gmail account somebody entered and hack my mail.they are login without passwd.
i think it may be in a regular browsing center.how can i solve it.please give the solution.how can i secure it for my mail while i am logging on that time.
thanks and regards
surya
Brett on August 27th, 2006 at 9:58 am
its all there in blue and white in the gmail settings menu ,,,, settings/pop forwarding/configuration settings sim
ple
Colin on August 30th, 2006 at 6:14 am
I have 3 GMail accounts and have set them up to POP accounts onto my Apple Mail. They work great, but yesterday and they have all stopped allowing me to send out to the SMTP server. Asks me for password, I enter correctly and it says its incorrect!!. I am using a PowerBook and another MacBook, so its not computer settings. I have reinstalled all accounts using Googles set up instructions. No luck :-(
Anybody else experiencing problems?
ikram kakar on August 30th, 2006 at 9:23 pm
hi hello
iam from afghanistan
i want to ingore some email account i dont want to receive email from who i dont want so can some one tell me how to block email in my mail server page and my microsofr outlook or outlook express
Colin on August 31st, 2006 at 12:30 am
Hey – the SMTP thing has sorted ITSELF out. Very wierd! Is this a temporary glitch with Google or a way of managing bandwidth like Ed suggested?
Colin on August 31st, 2006 at 1:25 pm
in outlook if you go to the message menue you can block an email from a particular adress or a whole domain.
[ugly_cat] on September 11th, 2006 at 12:34 am
helo,
if my ISP is blocked secure socket layer for gmail
eg.
https:// was baned by :443
how can i access my gmail?
do you anybody know?
[ugly_cat]
m ajmal zia on September 19th, 2006 at 7:53 am
g mail is the mothere of meesengers
Andy H on September 23rd, 2006 at 5:27 pm
If you ISP is blocking port 443 (https) then I suggest switching ISP, mainly because that is an absolutley stupid restriction. – Chances are its not your ISP doing th blocking – if you are using a shared connection I suggest speaking to whoever administrates it – they may be blocking https connections as they cannot inspect the content.
If you want to access your gmail without using a secure web connection you will need to use an email client such as Mozilla Thunderbird, Outlook / Outlook express etc.. and configure it appropriatley (See the google help pages for more info) Accessing your mail in that manner is different from using the web based interface but still works fine.
anonymous email on October 7th, 2006 at 12:16 am
The 587 port trick worked but without switching on the SSL checkbox.
Kelly on October 8th, 2006 at 11:39 pm
Hello, I’m having the same problem as imhere. i can send email from my apple mail but not receive. i have tried checking the pop/forwarding box in gmail but it won’t save my preferences. i have tried safari and firefox but it won’t save. any ideas, this is beginning to drive me crazy
James on October 22nd, 2006 at 2:13 pm
Here’s a plug-in for hotmail users I found,installed and have successfully used. Thank Goodness. Follow the directions on the web page. When you get to the link for the download page you will have to click on the file you want and pick a “mirror” just pick a company in your country. After you install the plug in you will have to use some common sense to get through the set-up process. You may have to go back into your mail preferences and do some additional tweeking. If I can get through it I’m sure you can. Good Luck. Here’s the link.
http://www.osxfaq.com/dailytips/06-2003/06-12.ws
David on October 22nd, 2006 at 6:03 pm
THANKS SOOO MUCH I LOVE THIS WEBPAGE IS GOING ON MY FAV
yogesh on December 1st, 2006 at 6:52 am
please access your my gmail account
Marco GENERY on December 22nd, 2006 at 3:30 pm
Thank you hope I get A succseccfull gmail acc.
carcher on December 28th, 2006 at 4:22 pm
I’m having a weird problem: I’ve set up the Gmail account in Mail all to spec and I was able to download emails that were received up to August 2006 and then nothing. I’ve sent test emails, but they can’t be received in Mail, but I can send perfectly fine. I’ve checked the configurations on Gmail Help, tried different ports, tried using pop.googlemail.com, but still no new mail. Any suggestions?
Thanks…
Danica welch on January 11th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
THIS PROGRAM SUCKS PUSSY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Lai on May 18th, 2007 at 6:44 am
About yahoo mail servers..
I have a free yahoo mail account and can get my yhoo mail via outlook.
the mail settings are incoming : pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk
outgoing: mail.yahoo.co.uk
HTH
gus pedigo on May 30th, 2007 at 10:41 am
I give up I don’t know what I’m suposed to do when it comes time to enter password. I gave my password and it kept refusing it. Then I tried to use a different one and it did the same thing. So unless you can explain to me what I should do(in english) I quit trying. gus88@shawneelink.net
gus pedigo on May 30th, 2007 at 10:42 am
How do I enter a password that is acceptable
Bob Bousfield on June 3rd, 2007 at 9:50 am
My access to GMail using Apple Mail also started behaving badly the past few days – accessing the POP server taking ages and eventually timing out (though sending was fine).
I discovered that by going to my GMail settings page using a web browser and switching *off* POP access, saving the settings, then turning it back *on*, saving the settings, fixed this problem.
Not sure why this would make a difference but I thought others may want to give it a try.
/Bob
Max Taylor on June 4th, 2007 at 10:48 am
Hello there Rich.
Iv just riecently purchased my mac and the Mail Function is great, and the one thing that would be absolutely amazing would be if i could do the same thing as the Gmail stuff with my orange email account.
It is a POP account andi have managed to get the emails to get retreived outomaticly like the way mail retrieves from .MAC but i have the same thing were i cant seam to send any emails, it requires a password to work, but i dont seem to know how to get the right password.
Thank you so much for your help!
Cheers
MAX
beck on June 29th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
I have followed the tutorials and can not get mail to work with gmail. I have triple checked all settings, in mail and with gmail settings. The error that I get when sending an email or downloading mail is:
“connection failed” The error encountered was: the server “pop.mail.com” on port xxx (587 and 995)have timed out. Any ideas to help me get this working?
Jordan on July 7th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
HELP! HELP!
followed this and it still doesnt work!!! help!!!!
“Trying to log into the POP server “pop.gmail.com” has failed. Please make sure the username and password are correct. If you continue, you may not be able to receive any email.”
my username is jordan.m.becker@gmail.com and i know my pasword is right. WTF?
Josh Burke on August 28th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
The instructions worked great, thanks!
Ben on November 5th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Can someone please help?? I continue to get this message.
====
There may be a problem with the mail server or network. Check the settings for account “Gmail” or try again.
The server error encountered was: The connection to the server “imap.gmail.com” on port 993 timed out.
Andy H on November 6th, 2007 at 10:18 am
Ben,
Assuming that you are using ssl, (and 993 is the right port so I assume you are) you should be good to go. The that you are seeing is a time out (rather than a rejection from the imap server) and therefore could be one of a few things.
Firstly, make sure that you have web connectivity, and that any firewall or router etc.. allows connections on port 993, it is possible if you are on a non personal network (i.e. corporate, school etc..) that it is blocked, if it is, they you are likely to be stuck.
xonomox on December 20th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
I get that message “could not be appended to the outbox” sometimes using mail and my gmail account, my quick fix is to go into the message i am trying to send and delete all the old messages below. If a email thread gets to be too large, that is when i seem to get a problem. I delete everything previous to my email and the email i am replying too, all other text,formatting etc gets deleted, works great.
othomas on March 29th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Thanks so much. This has been an issue for months. Finally resolved!
Mithu on May 4th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
I’m using gmail pop3 through outlook express. it’s working fine but the proble is only new upcoming maails are downloaded. but I also need the all previous mails that are already residing in my Gmail account.
Is there any way to download those previous through Outlook Exoress or any other Email Client ??
thanks.
Suse on May 16th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Hi; I followed all your fantastic instructions and set up my two gmail accounts to Mac Mail and all my emails were imported :D However Mail won’t let me send mail out; I get the following error: Cannot send message using the server stmp.gmail.com’. Anybody have any ideas with about this? I’d really appreciate some nerdy techie geniusness – I’m driven up the walls with it and am so sick of signing in and out of accounts for work every two minutes!
Tim on May 18th, 2008 at 10:59 am
With the latest version of Mail (possibly other earlier versions as well), just enter your gmail e-mail address and leave the option “Automatically setup account” checked. This option appears dynamically when you enter an e-mail address that the Mail application recognizes. Sending and receiving are a breeze!
M8244 on June 2nd, 2008 at 2:41 am
http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13275
good guide
M8244
Scott Cleveland on June 12th, 2008 at 6:03 am
So is there a way to access your hotmail account through Mail?
Jedd! on June 14th, 2008 at 1:53 am
even tho i’m using imap, changing the port to 587 was all i needed to do. too bad i spent an hour trying everything else before i found this page. google only suggested ports 25 or 400 something for imap users, for some strange reason??? anyways, thanks a lot!
Apple on July 1st, 2008 at 4:05 am
I discovered that by going to my GMail settings page using a web browser and switching *off* POP access, saving the settings, then turning it back *on*, saving the settings, fixed this problem.
Richard on July 16th, 2008 at 6:35 am
Hello All,
I was suffering the rejected password scenario with Gmail and Apple Mail! I found that I had to clear something called the ‘captcha’ in Gmail which can be done via this link:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=86395#
Voila! All works great! Must be some server side malarky! Enjoy.. ;-D
bazza on September 23rd, 2008 at 8:14 pm
I had a problem when changing my firewall settings on the router to a higher level. The incoming gmail msgs were not getting through on apple mail. So I allowed the ports 995 and 587 outbound through the router and that seemed to do the trick
Angela on October 16th, 2008 at 11:15 am
#97 Richard says:
Hello All,
I was suffering the rejected password scenario with Gmail and Apple Mail! I found that I had to clear something called the ‘captcha’ in Gmail which can be done via this link:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=86395#
Voila! All works great! Must be some server side malarky! Enjoy.. ;-D
I just wanted to say I was going to go nuts soon until I saw this tip and believe me, it worked like a freakin’ charm!! If anything, try this tip..It will save you from throwing your computer out the window :)
emma on October 22nd, 2008 at 10:33 pm
i recently added (started forwarding) another account to my gmail account and then decided to re-set-up my gmail account on apple mail. my problem: all of my mail from the other account is dated from the date i started forwarding it to gmail: e.g. emails from 2006 are dated sept 10, 2008. this is not a problem on my html gmail account, but somehow this happened in translation. any thoughts?
Zach on October 25th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Hello,
I know this post is from 2005, but I have a question. If I set up my Mail account using my Gmail information, am I going to be able to send bigger files than what I would if I only used Gmail?
I hope that makes sense. Gmail and Yahoo only let you send 10MB or something per email, will I be able to send bigger if I use Mail wired to Gmail.
Thanks for the help.
Zach
Andy H on October 25th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
@Zach
Gmail has a limit of 20M per message (including the message and any attachments) that applies IIRC whenever a message is to be stored on or pass through Google’s servers (so if you are using IMAP you wont be able store anything bigger, if you are using googles smtp server you wont be able to send anything bigger). Obviously if you are using your own ISP for SMTP and storing mail locally (as you would with POP3) your limit will depend on your ISP.
As an aside, you probably shouldn’t be using mail for transferring files bigger than 20M anyway, that is what all those other transfer protocols are for…
Oh and “I know this post is from 2005″ I signed up for notifications so happily once every few months I get to see people are still using this post and comment thread, just show’s how permanent the web can be…
edhardy on December 13th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
thanks for sharing!
thanks for sharing!ed_hardy
frd75 on December 24th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
If you have a POP account with gmail, you cannot Send mail For that,yiu need an imap account with gmail.from apple mail .
ANswering # 33
jeremy on April 26th, 2009 at 1:11 am
thanks it also works on Microsoft Outlook Express
Paa Kwesi Inkumsah on July 10th, 2009 at 9:27 am
I used to have my mail working on gmail, but now, I keep having this message each time I try getting my mails on mail: The server “smtp.gmail.com” cannot be contacted on the default ports.
Select a different outgoing mail server from the list below or click Try Later to leave the message in your Outbox until it can be delivered.
Sending from: Paa Kwesi Inkumsah
I need help!
Justin on July 26th, 2009 at 8:53 am
hope this helps me I have been having problems setting my Gmail account up on mu ibook
clairelynette on August 6th, 2009 at 7:38 am
Thanks this worked perfectly for me.
Porsche77 on September 12th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
I just bought a mac, loving it so far.
ive set up my hotmail and gmail accounts but i cannot access my folders…any ideas??
nadia on November 19th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
θελω να γραφτο στο gmail. ειμαι 14