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Gmail outgoing server on mac mail says its offline, won't send email but will receive e-mails using Apple Mail and PostBox. Using Maverick OSX 10.9.1 on all my computers and the latest iOS When I send an email from my google webmail client to my gmail email it is not received by the gmail address in webmail -even though it shows up in the sent mail folder. From webmail I can send and receive to my other non-gmail e-mail addresses from the web browser client. They also show up in the sent mail folder.
Neither Apple Mail or Postbox can send gmail e-mail - but they receive them. This is issue is across 2 iMacs, 2 iPads and a Powerbook and I have changed no setting on any except one iMac and the powerbook. 1)On the outgoing server I am using 2)) port 465 (although it does not work on ports 25 or 587 either) 3) SSL is checked 4) with Password authentication using my whole e-mail address as USER AND SAME PASSWORD I have check the password with webmail and it works. It can't be an apple issue if an e-mail sent from gmail webmail to gmail webmail is not received - even though it shows up in the sent folder On my iPhone I get the message my username or password is incorrect. I have tried connection doctor and everything is green except outgoing smtp which just spins I am NOT using two step verification.
I have selected imap. TIA occassia 30/1/2014, 14:07 น. I had this problem on Mail and iPhone with a new Google Apps account (custom domain name). The problem in Mail was that it defaulted the Outgoing SMTP server to only the first part of my email address as my User Name (e.g. Bob instead of ). When I changed this, it started working.
Open Preferences - Accounts 2. Click on dropdown next to Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) and click 'Edit SMTP Server List' 3. Change 'User Name' to ' and re-enter your password 4. The dropdown should no longer say (Offline) Haven't figured out the iPhone yet.
I'm going to try setting it up as a non-gmail account (with custom mail and smtp server). Occassia 20/2/2014, 12:02 น. I'm using Mac Mail and OS10.6.8. I'd been downloading my Gmail to my MacMail for years now, and suddenly it stopped a few weeks back. I tried the suggestions offered in this thread, but they did not work for me.
Finally I remembered I had signed up for Two Step Verification with Google. Although I had already been using an ASP (Application Specific Password), something must have gone wrong.
I revoked the old password, generated a new ASP and put this new ASP into my Mac Mail Preferences. My Mac Mail is working again!!
So it was an issue with the Two Step verification process (Google this term if you need more details -they give you good step by step directions) Brendan Glynn 9/4/2014, 9:49 น. This is common with Mac but a number of reasons why it happens.
For example, you create a google account. Like my wife a lot of workplaces use Google for the company e-mail and obviously the service lets you create a domain name for their company.
My wife's company xyz so she is but she creates the e-mail with Google and is the outgoing server. When you see the 'offline' on the bottom of the preferences screen, there's another choice there that says 'edit smtp server list.' Click on that.
What you find sometimes is Jennifer, for example is there in the username/e-mail it only populated jennifer so apple mail is looking for, not. Update that and the password and it will get rid of the online problem. I don't know why it's doing this.
I studied the problem all day. Bill Peatman 18/4/2014, 18:30 น. Thanks ryan - this was very frustrating and wasting so much time in futility until i found your post. Until November i had been a very happy Eudora user since 1995. Never had any kind of problems with it. Apple Mail is frustrating, i had tried to use it years ago and could not understand why it was so user unfriendly, compared to Eudora. Now, i can't use Eudora anymore because i had to get a new Mac and it has Mountain Lion.
So i can't thank you enough for helping with this ridiculous problem. I hate when technology goes backwards. Jaw444 21/4/2014, 18:29 น.
Ryan - in your post you said you hadn't figured out the iPhone problem yet. I had something that sounds similar to what you had, both Mail and iPhone were unable to send email from my gmail account, while my other accounts were ok. When i would send a mail using gmail as the sender, i got an error message saying either my username or password was incorrect. There was a button to click on Settings.
In my case, i had just changed the password for that account today, shortly before this happened with the iPhone mail. I changed it because Google forced me to, it would not accept my old password, saying it was changed 33 days previously. So i had to reset it. So i did go to Settings Mail the account gmail account again password, and i entered the new password i just created today. Now i'm able to send emails from my iPhone using my gmail account. I'm sure you've already tried re-entering your password in the mail settings, but i just wanted to tell you i had the same error message and that' what straightened it out for me.
I hope you have solved that problem by now. Ryan Done 21/4/2014, 20:50 น. Jeff - thanks for the info.
What you suggested here is similar to what Ryan posted earlier in the thread. This worked for me so that i could send emails from my gmail account in Mail-that is, my whole email address was populated, that wasn't the problem, no information was incomplete or wrong or missing, i just re-entered my password and clicked OK and when i was returned to the main Accounts page, the 'off line' label was no longer next to Gmail on the smtp servers menu.
This solution worked for a day or two, and then today, the problem came back. The Gmail password was no longer entered in the password field on the 'edit smtp servers list' page.
It was blank. I entered my password and now, the offline label is gone again and i can send mail.
But this fix is not holding more than a couple of days. I wonder if there is a setting somewhere that tells Mail to put a time limit on how long it will save a password. I have three other password authenticated email accounts in Mail. One of them has the same issue, it goes off line in the same way. The other two, iCloud and have not been having this problem. My gmail account did not have this problem until a couple of days ago, as much as i can tell.
Any idea why this fix would be temporary? I'm guessing it's temporary for the same reason it happened in the first place. Vblee2kx 25/4/2014, 7:41 น.
Ryan this was a huge help.THANKS! - CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This e-mail message from Bidtellect is intended for the individual or entity to which it is addressed.
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If you received this e-mail by accident, please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail and all copies of it. Uncle Percy 21/5/2014, 10:31 น. Thanks Ryan This seems to have worked for me too! On Thursday, February 20, 2014 2:48:11 PM UTC, Ryan Done wrote: I had this problem on Mail and iPhone with a new Google Apps account (custom domain name). The problem in Mail was that it defaulted the Outgoing SMTP server to only the first part of my email address as my User Name (e.g. Bob instead of ). When I changed this, it started working.
Open Preferences - Accounts 2. Click on dropdown next to Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) and click 'Edit SMTP Server List' 3. Change 'User Name' to ' and re-enter your password 4. The dropdown should no longer say (Offline) Haven't figured out the iPhone yet. I'm going to try setting it up as a non-gmail account (with custom mail and smtp server). Meredith T 5/6/2014, 2:42 น.
You should keep (by print, write down or print Screen in my case) the 2-step verification password to fill to login and outgoing server (SMTP) You can do step-by-step: Now open Mail and go to Preferences Accounts and select your Google account. At the bottom of the right hand pane it will say 'Outgoing Server (SMTP):' and should have 'Gmail' selected/ Click on this and you get a pop up menu and select 'Edit SMTP Server List'. (This accounts area is where you paste in your 'recieving' password under 'incoming mail server'.
Incoming server should be:, your username should be the start of your email address without the '@' section and your password should be the app-specific password, NOT the account password that was previoulsy used) This will open a list of the SMTP servers you have set up for sending mail. Click on the 'Gmail' one and then click on 'Advanced'. Set Authentication to 'Password' enter your Google user name then the app-specific password you generated in the password field. This should now work until you revoke the password. Sangreal0905, 5:31 น.
I cannot believe how bad instructions are to put the right settings in to the Apple mail client. My mail suddenly stopped working, I lost loads of emails and spend days trying to find out what was going on and spent two or three hours speaking to very useless BT technical support people in India about the BT mail part of the problem. I eventually sorted that out by chance intuition or something which left just my gmail offline and not retrieving emails. And it wasn't until I read through this entire thread that I got a few clues and managed to make gmail work properly.
But I am still very unhappy and still haven't quite understood what has been going on or quite how I eventually repaired it. But what I can see is that if a properly thought out checklist of instructions was written by google, none of us would have had any problems. I find the world of software seriously appalling and with extremely badly written software and even worse instructions on how to use it. When my apple OS was deliberately trashed by a malicious person a while back the apple tech support people displayed total ignorance of how to deal with that problem. It took nearly three months and days of talking rubbish to so called tech experts at apple during which time I eventually learnt that all that was needed was a reinstall of the original (slightly old) operating system which apple were refusing to do. And then when I did reinstall that OS which then allowed me to retrieve all my information from the external disk backup an apple genius bar tech idiot then trashed it all by then installing snowleopard which promptly destroyed that older OS I needed and lost me a lot of the information contained in the computer. This experience categorically proved that the software industry is mega stupid - just in case people doubted what they already thought about this!
Pauline Albert, 18:43 น. Since Ryan's post has a lot of up votes, I replied to this message. I am very tech savvy and work on this stuff all the time, but my problem was an obvious one, copy and paste. Please Note: (if not mentioned before).
The SMTP address (on Mac - Server Name: ) is not @ I have been trying on and off with which is unresolved (maybe that is why my problems started when google stopped broadcasting the DNS) but works perfectly. I hope this solves others' problems that are not solvable.
Chris Braddock, 18:53 น. I tried Ryan's suggestion and it made no difference. I've tried everything. My situation is that I was phished, so I had to change my Gmail password on a mail account I've used for years. Now the mail account works fine on my iPhone, and it works fine on the internet access to gmail, but on my Mac Mail on my Macbook, it keeps telling me that it's the wrong password.
Although I can receive email, I can't send out. I spent hours on it with Mac help, but it seems like Google mail has some control over whether the changes get through to Mac Mail. Still trying to find a solution. Will J Stewart 2/5/2015, 0:09 น.
You can get the app from the Google Webstore. You’ll have to choose the Add to Chrome option. Then it will start downloading and as soon as it’s done you should have a little icon on the top right of the browser window. This app is only available for Google Chrome but you can access the browser on Mac, PC and Chromebooks.
You can launch it by opening a Chrome tab and then clicking on the Apps option. You’ll find the Gmail offline app there and you will have to run it. When it begins to run, it will ask you to select the ‘Allow offline mail’ option and then you will see your Gmail with every message you got before the internet connection was cut up, but with a slightly different design.