Where do I enter my email password in Apple Mail?

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Where do I enter my email password in Apple Mail?

Earlier, I received a notification from Google saying I had to re-enter my password for my email account. I am using Gmail with Apple Mail. It's been working for many years with no difficulties.

This has happened before and there was no drama. When I clicked on the notification from Google a pop-up appeared from Google saying that I had to enter the password on their website. (This is typical, and I've done it before.) I did this without difficulty and I logged into my email account successfully ON the G-Mail website.

Unfortunately, the Apple Mail program is not connecting to the Gmail server. A search online lead me to an Apple page that showed me how to enter my password. The problem is, there is NO place to enter my password in Apple Mail that I can find.

Following Apple's instructions, I did this:

Internet accounts > I selected my email account > Details (this is the place where Apple says I enter my password.) In "Details", there are ONLY 3 items, email address, description, and name. Nowhere to put in a password.

Posted on Jun 18, 2023 7:16 PM

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Answer 1

Ziatron Author

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Jun 18, 2023 8:20 PM in response to dialabrain

So strange indeed, it magically started to work again, and then after about a half an hour it's no longer connecting to the Gmail server. I consider deleting the account and re-creating it again to be a last resort. I'm trying to understand where the password goes. IF I were to delete my account, it's not clear to me I could re-create it because there's nowhere to put a password.

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Barney-15E

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Jun 19, 2023 8:43 AM in response to dialabrain

That's strange. Perhaps it is related to allowing Mail to manage the connection settings automatically. I have to manage mine manually since it fails to use the correct ports and servers if I allow it to do so automatically.

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dialabrain

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Jun 19, 2023 4:24 AM in response to Barney-15E

Barney-15E wrote:

You can set it in Internet Accounts System Settings.

It is also in Mail Settings, Accounts, Server Settings.

Not in my installs.

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dialabrain

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Jun 18, 2023 7:25 PM in response to Ziatron

It's been a long time since I've created an email account. Normally you were asked to enter a password when creating the account. You could try removing the account then re-adding it.

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