Mail, Contacts & Calendars: GMail cannot be added anymore
A few days ago I noticed I could not sync my local contacts with the contacts in Google. I deleted the Gmail account from Mail, Contacts & Calendars and wanted to add it again. However this did not work.
I would get the following error every time I tried:
I have tried the following things. None of them solved the problem unfortunately.
- Add a Gmail account in the Guest user (same error).
- Make a new Gmail account, try to add it (same error).
- Enable 2-step verification, make application specific passwords (same error).
- Run Keychain first aid.
- Verify & Repair permissions.
- Verify & Repair disk (volume bitmap needed minor repair for orphaned blocks). After repair still the same situation.
- Reverted
file to default./etc/hosts
- Disabled Little Snitch.
- Boot from external drive into Yosemite, try to add the Google account.
- Try connection through ethernet instead of airport express.
- Try connection through a different network entirely.
- Following the troubleshooting steps from Google.
- Allowing "less secure application" (that still use OAuth 1.0) to login to Google.
- Resetting the Keychain
The workaround is to add all Google accounts into Mail, Contacts & Calendar separately (using CalDAV). However, this is a workaround, not a solution. Additionally this does not solve the Google syncing problem I had.
I cannot find anything in the log regarding this error, so I'm quite lost on how to troubleshoot this further.
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)