by Alec Muffett
Currently – about four times a day, perhaps more – my access to GMail via Mail.app on MacOS is interrupted by a popup/requester saying that “authentication failed”, and asking me to re-enter my password for access to my GMail POP account.
I hit “Cancel” and the “Reconnect” (small lightning-bolt) button, and it invariably succeeds on the next attempt.
Am I the only person to be experiencing this?
You are not the only one. I gave up on using the POP access and just went to a gmail notifier application to let me know when there is new mail.
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Happens to me too except slightly less frequently.
Difficult to know what’s going on exactly; maybe testing with the gmail widget to see if it gets auth failures as often might help?
Alas am running 10.3 and am disinclined to mess with it for the sake of a mailbox i only use slightly…
I am thinking “Transient Directory Lookup Failures” at Google – which is mildly worrying
I don’t know about Gmail as I haven’t got an account.
However, be careful with Mail.app. It has a habit (using IMAP) of every so often “disappearing” blocks of recently arrived e-mails as you are reading them or before you get to them. By “disappearing” I mean that they suddenly disappear from the inbox with Mail.app effectively saying that they never existed and they’re removed from the IMAP server’s inbox.
Mail.app also has a habit of corrupting its local mailboxes, especially if disk space is becoming tight. This corruption can lay dormant for weeks and then suddenly the folder is unreadable (and in the case of one of our users, unrecoverable). I’m not sure if this bug has been fixed in Tiger but it was still there in 10.3.
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