Wanting to set up my Mail.app with my multiple mail accounts: all works. To start, I have my apple-id set with a address and I also have an address. new issues! Will you make me love Mail.app again? now getting back to it after all those years. I stopped using Mail.app years ago because of big issues. Mail.app - default iCloud smtp/imap set to Google Hi everyone, Today the latest error is that when saving the smtp settings in edit smtp within Mail's prefs, it immediately loses the settings - they aren't saved at all but simply disappear! Is there anything I can do instead of re-installing the whole Gmail account across iCloud? If I immediately sent an email, the settings saved but next day, it had defaulted to the wrong settings. So I then again tried changing the smtp settings within Prefs to update to the correct settings, but clicking off within prefs meant that the settings weren't saved. So the next issue was that while it saved my Gmail smtp settings, it didn't save the correct settings, so again this meant I couldn't send emails from that account.

The only way to change this was to delete the Gmail smtp account within Mail and then replace it, which I did. So I played with the Gmail settings within Mail's prefs and changed the smtp settings but it would then keep going offline.

Despite not changing anything, it suddenly wouldn't send emails from my Gmail account. No changes to my Mac, no updates, no changes to Gmail and no breaches either. A few days ago, my Gmail started playing up within Apple Mail having worked for months.

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