The Gmail outgoing server on mac mail says its offline, won't send email. I receive incoming emails with no problem. I have an imac with OSX Yosemite 10.10.1. This just suddenly started happening today, no apparent cause. Does anyone out there know how to fix this?
From the Mail app select the Window pulldown menu, then select Connection Doctor. Let Connection Doctor do it’s thing and report back to us what the failure message is. You can also check your Gmail settings by Mail->Preferences->Accounts->Select the Gmail account->Account Information and verify that the Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) has an entry. If you want to go further pulldown the SMTP server list and select Edit SMTP server list->Gmail->Advanced and make sure it’s using SSL, is using Port 587 and has your correct user name and password. If the password entry is blank, enter your Gmail password and click OK. then start Connection Doctor again.
From the Mail app select the Window pulldown menu, then select Connection Doctor. Let Connection Doctor do it’s thing and report back to us what the failure message is. You can also check your Gmail settings by Mail->Preferences->Accounts->Select the Gmail account->Account Information and verify that the Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) has an entry. If you want to go further pulldown the SMTP server list and select Edit SMTP server list->Gmail->Advanced and make sure it’s using SSL, is using Port 587 and has your correct user name and password. If the password entry is blank, enter your Gmail password and click OK. then start Connection Doctor again.
Thanks. It would be nice if you could tell us what happened and what did the trick, what the problem was, or if things just started working again, in which case it was probably a temporary glitch at Google’s end.
Thank you for your help, lkrupp. Using Preferences and Advanced as you suggested, I confirmed all settings that displayed, overwrote the password dots, and then was able to Send messages.
I had changed my Google password yesterday and updated it in the Mail application, but that change evidently only affected incoming messages. I didn't even know the password had to be re-set two places in Mail. But now I do!
Excellent.
I had the same the problem and went to my google account. The two- factor authentication was disabled on my account, so I set it up. I went back to my account preferences and put in the sixteen character code that Google gave me and the Google outgoing server came on-line.
Gmail outgoing server on mac mail says its offline, won't send email
