Gmail and Apple Mail had a bit of a disagreement about my wedding, it would seem.
On April 1st, Gmail and Apple Mail had a fight. Gmail wouldn’t talk to Apple Mail most of the time, but Apple Mail wouldn’t even acknowledge there was a problem.
In simple terms, Apple Mail was only collecting about 10% of my new mail from Gmail, but was not drawing any errors. So I just figured I wasn’t getting much email, and that was a nice change.
Wrong. Oh so wrong.
I got paranoid today and checked Gmail manually from the web, only to find 800 unread email messages – lots of spam, but also lots of important emails. And 4 hours later, mostly dealt with.
So, Gmail and Apple Mail seem to be resolving their issues now. We disabled POP access then re-enabled it in Gmail and now the two mail systems seem to be talking again.
So, interesting day and funny timing. But not a fun 4 hours of reading email.
Ouch. I do suggest in your pop settings having it archive after checking. I used to just keep it in my inbox … having to clean up a ton of “unread” messages I had already downloaded was a royal pain.
Yeah, I do that. I get too many emails – and too much spam – not to!
I even cannot send my messages via gmail account. I don’t know why. It always say “stmp sever is not responding….”.