High Sierra gmail problem

Erwin! You just saved me!! I have been going crazy for 2 days trying to get my mail.app working again (stopped working when I upgraded from osx 10.13.5 to 10.13.6)

So my imap is working, but i can't seem to get a pop account to even set up. At any rate, this is great - thank you so, so much!

Hi, this did not work for me. I also have problem using the mail app towards all my google accounts after upgrading from osx 10.13.5 to 10.13.6. This is only the case on my iMac and not my older MacBook Pro. I have 2-step authentication on all my accounts and this works perfectly fine on osx 10.13.6 on my MacBook Pro (Late 2012 model), but not on the iMac (late 2015 model). Turning off 2-step authentication on one of my google accounts did not solve the problem for me, as several here describes.

I have tried most of the recipes posted in this thread but none have worked. What to do?

My iCloud email address is totally different from my Gmail BUT, I didn't have an iCloud email address before the update so it may be worth trying anyway. I'll report back when I've tried it.

Tried this numerous times, turning on and off, creating app passwords...nothing works 😟

Same thing started to happen to me today.

HI! How did you delete your iCloud account for that email address?

was it a POP or IMAP email account? I'm afraid POP will loose all email.

Do you mean your Apple ID was under your gmail address?

Thank you - will give that a go. I was told by Apple to set up a Test User which eliminated the problem when in the new account but problems have persisted with my own user account.

It worked! I can now access my mail in Thunderbird.

Thanks for your help.

Best regards

Mike Wall

if your iCloud account is not connected ( just an example ) , open mail application click on I cloud and send a mail from - iCloud address ( in To - field type your gmail address ) the mail will be sent to your inbox in your apple mail application a pop up appears .in this screen shot it is showing could not connect to outgoing server , thats the reason when connection doctor is opened SMTP for iCloud is totally vanished .You can apply same with gmail say if IMAP or SMTP is not working . Simply click on always use this server to get joined .

And you will observe all IMAP / SMTP for gmail account and iCloud account are showing green dots and joined to their respective server .

Two of my gmail accounts worked and one did not. I discovered that if I have the mailbox list showing in the menu at left (click on "Mailboxes" at top left to hide/show this), and then CONTROL CLICK on the recalcitrant mailbox, a pop up menu shows with one option being "Take "xx.gmail online." I chose that and Bingo - mail working. Have no idea why that account defaulted to offline, nor why I haven't found that solution before now.

After reading all of your guys response I tried the same thing. I deleted my gmail account and connected it again. This time at least I get as far as being able to select which things I want to think up put after that it keeps freezing. Does anyone know what to do?

Is anyone having this problem on iOS? Google is saying that google limits the amount of data that can be transferred through the IMAP protocol. When the limit is reached, gmail takes forever to populate in iOS and desktop. They recommended setting gmail up as an exchange account on iOS (exchange setup doesn't work on macOS). I've tried to set gmail up as an exchange account but it keeps saying that it cannot connect to the server. These problems just started happening about 6 weeks ago.

I too have a problem signing into Gmail using Thunderbird. It refuses my password whilst I have no problem logging into Gmail using Chrome with the same password. Maybe I am a cynic but it could be that Google is trying to control which software can access Gmail as it is losing out on advertising.

I prefer to use Thunderbird as it is far more useable and versatile. There are no adverts whereas using Gmail in Chrome I get many unsolicited advertisements.

I have tried all the recommended solutions but none of them work.

I'm going to give it 30 days to see if things change after which I will use a new email account and stop using Gmail and Chrome altogether - ADVERTISERS IN GMAIL NOTE!