My Gmail mails are not getting downloaded in Apple mail.

My Gmail mails are not getting downloaded in Apple mail. How messy can situations get? Mail, how important a thing is it to a businessman who does most of his document transactions vial mail and nothing else. I should be calling it an asset, I guess and imagine the device meant to help me in this regard is not at all doing this and is instead creating troubles of a huge level leading into messes that I’m totally unable of getting out of! It was working so damn perfect till the last time I went out for a business meeting out of the state and I had carried another non-mac portable device, wherein I had configured my gmail account. It went perfectly fine and I had perfect access to all my email accounts. But when I reached back home and realized that that the mails that was available for me on my portable device is not visible out here. Now, I was out for 10 weeks, you cannot expect me export all 1000s of very important, important and not so important mails to my Mac. Now, what I expect from starting this thread is nothing less than a super-perfect set of solutions that is sure enough to solve the issue that I am facing and am clueless about. Looking forward for a fool-proof single attempt solution Reply With Quote #2 Unread 2 Weeks Ago Hadriel Hadriel is offline Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 565 Re: My Gmail mails are not getting downloaded in Apple mail. Your problem looks a bit peculiar so I would suggest you not to please expect a very fool-proof solution at the very first attempt. We will have to make your system and application undergo a few tests and changes and follow the trial and error mode of troubleshooting. Hurry will spoil everything so I would suggest you to be please very patient and simply concentrate and perform on what me and other beloved co-posters. For now I want you to check the mail preference. For which you need to meticulously follow a set of steps. • First and foremost, you need to open the very application which is giving you this unwanted trouble. Open the Apple Mail application • Once you are into it, you might come across a number of menus from which you’ve got to chose Mail • Under the mail menu, again you might encounter some more submenus, out of which ‘Preferences’ is what you should be preferring • This selection is supposed to be followed by clicking ‘General button resulting into a pop up • This pop us is nothing but the ‘Default email reader software’ if you happen to see something else, you need to review your path • Here, you are definite to come across a number of options to select from and you need to check the one selected. That is nothing but the mail preference check that I was talking about. If this is fine or not, let me know. Reply With Quote #3 Unread 2 Weeks Ago Aadidev Aadidev is offline Member Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 216 Re: My Gmail mails are not getting downloaded in Apple mail. I would rather ask you to reconfigure your gmail account with your system. I am sure, you will want to know how to go about this, so I am helping you out with this. I hope it helps 1. The first and the basic step would be to follow the above step and reach the preferences tab. 2. After clicking on which you will come across another tab called ‘Accounts’ and by clicking the + button, one can add a new account 3. You will need to fill in the below given information in the window that pops out. Make sure, it’s right . o Full name: here you need to right your full name, which will include your last name too o Email Address: here, write the entire email id that you use and you need to configure. This can be either of the following: i. Username@gmail.com, incase what you are using is a basic gmail id ii. username@domain-name.com in case, what you are using is a gmail application and you have a customized email id. o Password: no, you needn;t worry about the security of the password. Enter it very safely and go to the next text field to go ahead with the data entry thing o A very important note: you need to deselect or uncheck the checkbox, 'Automatically set up account’ 4. Now, in order to create an account on Apple mail, click on the button which reads ‘Create’. This will create an account of your configuration choice. 5. Having entered the basic and personal information ask you can easily go ahead with entering the Incoming mail server information o Account type: the first field asks you to select the type of account. Now, here, you have no option but to select ‘IMAP’ o Incoming Mail Server: this might be showing a very different default entry which is definitely not what you are looking for, change it to imap.gmail.com o Email Address: here, write the entire email id that you use and you need to configure. This can be either of the following: i. Username@gmail.com, incase what you are using is a basic gmail id ii. username@domain-name.com in case, what you are using is a gmail application and you have a customized email id. o Password: again you need to enter your basic gmail password which you use to access your account 6. Then to continue with the account creation process in a more efficient and secure way you need to click ‘Continue’ which will lead you to another window 7. You have recently entered the details which specifies the outgoing mail server information o Outgoing mail server: here, you need to enter the name of the outgoing mail server which will be ‘smtp.gmail.com’ o Use Authentication: this checkbox asks you if you want the application to use authentication, I am sure you want to. So simply select it o User name: this as both the above conditions can be either of the cases, you need to select one from both o Password: again as mentioned above and as multiple layers of security, you need to enter your gmail password 8. Now, in order to go ahead with the process, you will need to click on the button which reads ‘Continue’ 9. Recheck and review the entire Account summary that will be provided, post clicking on the continue button 10. You are now done with the entire account creation process and what you next need to do is a simple click on the ‘Create’ button and there you go The solution to your issue is hopefully provided with the effort that I tried making. Reply With Quote