Can't add gmail to my mac mail - using High Sierra

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Can't add gmail to my mac mail - using High Sierra

Whether I go into my mail icon or though system preferences and try to add my gmail account to my list of email accounts on my MacBook Air I can't add it. I click on the gmail icon and enter my username and PW and then check off the apps I want to add to this account such as mail, calendar, notes etc and hit done. It looks like it sends and remains on the screen until my only other option is to hit cancel and the account isn't ever added yet I get an email every time from google security saying my macbook is trying to access my account so I know it's sending the info but my Mac isn't putting it on mac mail. This has been going on for months now and likely occurred when i did the update to High Sierra but not sure if that is the exact time this happened. I used to have gmail on my computer until recently when I was having issues, deleted it and couldn't ever re-add it since. Thanks for your help.

MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.13

Posted on Apr 21, 2020 9:36 PM

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Lexiepex

Level 6

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Apr 22, 2020 1:16 AM in response to gat8r

Perhaps this works:

open Mail->Accounts delete gmail there.

open Mail->Preferences->Accounts and delete gmail when it is there.

Shutdown Mail, then restart Mail

Open Mail->Accounts and add Gmail there.

Restart Mail.

Does it work now?

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BDAqua

Level 10

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Apr 22, 2020 12:33 PM in response to gat8r

OK, was just fishing for more clues...

This may still work...

Go through setting everything up to a Fake Server, none of the Apple choices, replace the part after the @ sign with like @fakeserver.net when setting up this fake account, use all the right ports authentication, & passwords, wait for mail to say it failed do you want to save this account anyway, say yes, then you can go back in & edit the 2 servers to gmail.com or whatever instead of @fakeserver.net

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