El Capitan killed my Gmail pop setup

I was so happy to find your post. For 5 days now I have been getting almost constant notifications that I have received Gmails from 2011. SO MANY and I haven't been able to figure out how to make it stop. I also get them on my ipad and iphone. I tried the fix mentioned above about allowing less secure apps and even though I do not understand it, I'm going to try it and see if it stops the incoming 2011 downloading.

Did it work for you?

Thanks

Jill

nope - still getting notifications. The notification comes across my desktop - I click on it and it is an email from 2011 or 2012 (it seems to have gotten finished with 2011....now has moved on to 2012.) ALL old gmails. You? If you fixed it can you tell me how? THANKS

This is exactly the same situation I am in. I already have the Allow Less Security switched to ON before this problem developed so that is not solving it for me.

Definitely I reached my limit with Apple.

Thousands of emails are coming again as new after installing El Captain.

4 google accounts do not access anymore.

This problem has already happened to the Yosemite

Apple does not respect i users, the things only work if you use only things Apple.

There are thousands of messages from users complaining and Apple does nothing!

I will format my MacBook with Linux and never more will use Apple.

Paulo Breim

I just updated to El Capitan, tried to send an email with my POP gmail account, and ran into this problem. I use two-factor-authentication, and apparently that's why I didn't see anything about allowing insecure apps when I accessed my google settings. Seemed like the processes people went through caused various hassles I hoped to avoid. Just playing around, I ended up fixing the problem pretty painlessly and quickly.

First off, I used the Accounts setting inside the Mail Preferences, not the more broad Accounts setting you can access from Mail, but that can also be used for other applications. From before I upgraded to El Capitan, I had an inactive IMAP account, and then my Gmail POP account, which I had originally created by fooling the OS by setting it up with a dummy address (like me@gmaid.com - so the OS didn't realize I was trying to set up a Gmail account), and then at the last minute, after the wrong info didn't connect, I fixed all the info to say "gmail". I unchecked "enable this account." Then I edited the Gmail SMTP setting (Outgoing Mail Server) and added a fresh Google App Password. That's it, and everything worked fine. I mean, totally fine, no turning off 2FA, no redownloading of mail, no switching to IMAP, no making any changes on my Google account (maybe the less secure option was already selected a long time ago? I don't know)..

Hope this helps someone. I'm really happy I avoided some of the other options presented

My problem of getting a password failure for message after upgrading to El Capitan on my gmail pop account was fixed using this davedcotter's post.

Thanks so much!!!

Happened to me after upgrade to El Capitan. I just eliminated the gmail account in y Mac Mail app (Mail->Accounts) and then set it up again as new and it worked again.

Not sure if I did something wrong but I figured out all my gmail mail is kept safe in gmail google so hopefully i lost nothing

Add me to the list of those whose POP accounts are behaving buggy after converting to El Capitan. All of the descriptions by others have surfaced in my several Gmail accounts. I made this a case with Apple Care and they were able to duplicate the problem on their iMac. As far as I can tell, the problem has no solution right now. POP accounts will erroneously behave like IMAP accounts (if they are touched -or- created) even though Gmail setting are clearly shown to be POP. If I learn more, I'll post it here.

I'm having the same problem with POP mail ... nowhere is there a place in Mail to make IMAP account into POP account ... if you get this resolved please post solution!!

Did this "fix" end up working for you? I just updated to El Capitan and am having same issues. Even when I set to IMAP it won't send. And I prefer to use POP because I can control what is downloaded... Just wondering. Thanks

This is still a problem.

I have El Capitan 10.11.5 and it works for me.

Here's how I always do it to trick Gmail 😉

On the first window when trying to create a new account don't pick Google. Pick "Other Mail Account".

Then on the second window, on the Email Address, just put something random WITHOUT using @gmail.com. Put something like "johnsmith@ilikechocolate.com". Anything but @gmail.com

Insert your real password. When you hit Sign In it will say it couldn't verify, but it's ok. On that 3rd window insert your normal information. Here you will change johnsmith@ilikechocolate.com to your normal gmail email address. From there, you will have to change to Pop and use pop.gmail.com on the incoming and outgoing mail servers.

It works for me. Hope it works for you too 🙂
Good luck!

Wow. That did work! Thanks.

Okay but what dod I do about the paranoia Google has instilled by telling me how unsecure things are now that I've turned it off?