Q: El Capitan killed my Gmail pop setup
Hi,
I had my Gmail set up as POP before I upgraded to El Capitan. Since upgrading, the mail program hasn't been able to access my Gmail POP account. The IMAP accounts I have at Gmail and the others elsewhere, IMAP and POP, work fine.
I'd rather not have an IMAP account. I hate that it downloads mail without my checking it first. I use either the Gmail website or a menubar app called Mail Tab to check my mail before i download it. I don't get much spam but the last line of defense is checking it before I download it, thus the POP setup.
Mail assumes you want to set up an IMAP account when you set up a Gmail account in it. There is a way to get it to let you choose POP but so far, I'm not getting it to work. I keep getting an "unable to verify account name or password" message from the Mail Internet Account pane. I tried setting up a new account but continued to get that message. There was talk about using the control key to get Mail to give me a "Next" button instead of assuming I want to set up an IMAP account but I am not getting that to work either.
I have things properly setup at Gmail. It all worked before I upgraded to 10.11.
So, any ideas on how I get POP to work for Gmail would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Cheers,
John L
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11)
Posted on Sep 30, 2015 2:30 PM
log into your gmail account via the web.
then, under your account name, click "my account":
then click "sign-in and security"
then flip the switch on "Allow less secure apps" so it's in the "ON" position.
And BOOM!
Posted on Oct 1, 2015 1:56 PM



