Apple Mail won't connect to browser to update passwords - help

AppleMail/Google says I need to re-enter a password to use a mail account. Neither going in through Apple Mail nor through System Preferences will open the browser to allow me to do that. I checked that I have my default browser set to Safari (someone suggested not having that done was the issue in another thread) and I still only get a spinning wheel and no connection. My options are 'open Safari" which is grayed out while the wheel spins and spins and spins and never connects, and "cancel". I can go in through GoogleMail and access the account there, but I'd really rather be able to read it in Apple Mail as I have been doing for some time now.

Any suggestions? I am running Monterey 12.0.1 on an M1 chip MacBook Pro. AppleMail Version 15.0 (3693.20.0.1.32)