If you're email is still not working after this, in Mail open the Mail menu > Preferences > Accounts and select your Gmail account. Select the account with the broken outgoing mail server, and then click the minus sign at the bottom.Ĭlick the Apple menu > System Preferences > Internet Accounts.Ĭlick Google, and sign into your Gmail based account again.
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If your SMTP server / Outgoing Mail Account constantly appears 'Offline', here's how to fix it:Ĭlick the Apple menu (upper left corner of your screen) > System Preferences > Internet Accounts. Removing the account and setting it up again should take care of the issue. I can send an email and when I check gmail via a web browser I see that email, but it does not download into the Apple Mail app. (Google Mail) provides IMAP access to your (Google Mail) account, so you can connect to your emails from your desktop email program or your mobile mail app. Can't Connect Gmail To Mail App On Macbook Today () the Mail app stopped downloading gmail messages. Access your (Google Mail) Account from an Email Program using IMAP. If this doesn’t fix your Gmail authentication issues on your Mac OS 10.15 Mail app, then make sure you don’t have a network firewall working against your Mail account. You can also use the Mail Settings Lookup tool to confirm the settings for Gmail. Now Gmail accounts should be setup just through 'Internet Accounts' in the System Preferences, and the SMTP will be setup automatically. Check Mail preferences to ensure your email account settings are current.
You shouldn’t need to do any of the custom SMTP setup within Mail to get a Gmail based email account working in macOS. Even adding the SMTP server manually in Mail didn't help. Yesterday I helped a friend who had a problem where her outgoing email account (SMTP server) for a Gmail based email account kept appearing 'Offline' right after she set it up.
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