Repeated connection to Gmail imap server problem.

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Repeated connection to Gmail imap server problem.

I get this message everytime I try to get my Gmail account emails, in Apple Mail: 'The mail server "imap.gmail.com" is not responding. Verify that you have entered the correct account info in Mail settings." My account info is correct. I didn't change anything and all my settings are correct as far as I know. It first started happening on my iPhone, now on my iMac as well. I've tried specifying the gmail imap server (in quotes above) in the mail settings for my Gmail account, but to no avail. MANY people are having the same problem (google it if you don't believe me). Can anyone help?

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Jan 25, 2014 4:17 PM

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Answer 1

Lyssa

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Jan 25, 2014 5:27 PM in response to NinaNH

Whenever I have this type of problem, I remove the email account that isn't working & re-add it. That should do the trick.

~Lyssa

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ckuan

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Jan 25, 2014 5:35 PM in response to NinaNH

maybe it the GMail outage you are getting:

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/gmail-google-services-go-do wn-around-the-world-20140125-31f09.html

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Answer 3

NinaNH Author

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Jan 25, 2014 7:35 PM in response to Lyssa

Thank you for your advice, but I did that.... Perhaps 5 times with 2 step verification, 4 without. Finally I Tried changing incoming server to imap.googlemail.com as suggested elsewhere. It just started working within the last 3 minutes!!!!!!! I've been slaving over this computer for hours because of this. The outage may have started it, but seems something new took over. Who knows.

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