There, just under the always-troublesome 2-Step Verification option (which always locks out Apple Mail as well), is a setting for “Access for less secure apps” which is set by default to “Off”. So we headed into her Gmail account settings to see what our options were. This particular client was running OS X 10.7.5 Lion, but only had 4GBs of memory, so upgrading to OS X 10.10 Yosemite, with the most version recent Apple Mail, was not really recommended.
Wow, our options were to use a Google app, or go to a website with “lesssecureapps” in the URL, and agree to no longer use “modern security standards?” Apparently, Google has unilaterally declared that older copies of Apple Mail and Microsoft Outlook no longer support modern security standards. This is patently untrue. You can switch to an app made by Google such as Gmail to access your account (recommended) or change your settings so that your account is no longer protected by modern security standards.
In those Blocked Sign-In Notification email messages, we read some very interesting new wording: Because these emails were sent to the Gmail account that Apple Mail could no longer access, she never saw them.
When we logged in, directly through the Gmail website, I found a series of emails letting the client know that they had been blocking their login attempts for a few months. This morning I was helping a client whose Apple Mail could not connect to her Gmail account. My current problem with the Gmail system has to do with them blocking sign-ins due to people using what they refer to as “less secure apps.” Those “less secure apps” refer to any email client that’s not made by Google and has not been upgraded to the very latest version. But I’ll go into more depth on that in a later blog post. IMHO, Gmail has become one of the worst options for Apple users. And its All Mail folder stores every email you have ever received, then syncs those old disregarded emails onto every device you use. It throws a wrench in the Mac gears by Archiving instead of Deleting. Have you recently started getting an incorrect password message when trying to access your Gmail account? There is a chance that Google is blocking your login because you are not running the latest operating system, and not using a Google product to access your Gmail.Īs an Apple support professional who troubleshoots email issues on a daily basis, I’ve never really liked Gmail.
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