Apple Mail and gmail

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Apple Mail and gmail

Mid morning my gmail accounts stopped working in Apple Mail. I get errors that say "Unable to verify account name or password". I get same error when trying to connect account(s) in system preferences/Internet Accounts.

I have restarted, installed latest update and done all other suggestions I could find.

I can log in via Google fine so all passwords/user names are good.

I purchased Airmail and tested the accounts there and they all work.

I prefer Apple Mail and have all my mail organized by person/company/category going many years back.

Oh - and Mail works fine on my iPad but I really need it all on my mac and all in it's proper folder.

Help....

iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 12.4

Posted on Jun 7, 2022 6:57 PM

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Beate Author

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Jun 12, 2022 9:52 PM in response to macman11

I'm not sure. I would think so.

I file all my mail in (way too many) folders so I had nothing sitting in any of the in or sent boxes.

You can create one folder and move all the mail there before deleting the address(s). If it is "On My Mac", it will stay there.

You can then move back to desired mailbox once you re-establish. I did a screenshot with red error of possible folder you can create. (pardon my dumb label)

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Beate Author

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Jun 12, 2022 10:00 PM in response to Beate

I'm sorry but I keep thinking of issues...

Since all my mail was already filed away, once I re-established the gmail accounts, nothing came in (except new mail).

In your case, all mail that is available from the server will come back in.

You can still do what I suggested and then ignore/delete the duplicates in your temp folder and just put back the ones the server did not download.

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Beate Author

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Jun 8, 2022 10:27 AM in response to Beate

Update - I did the one thing that I had not tried. Deleted all the accounts. Added them back. Now they work.

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macman11

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Jun 12, 2022 8:55 PM in response to Beate

HELP QUESTION: - if i do what you did (delete and reinstall, will i lose all my historical emails... ???

(some are 15 years old, may not be on the server and are still relevant to keep)

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Beate Author

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Jun 12, 2022 9:54 PM in response to Beate

Or you can create as many folders as you need to organize what you are deleting if say you have multiple accounts. That would help when you put them back.

Same for the sent folders.

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