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I just got a gmail account & tried to set it up with Mail. After searching online when it didn't work I made sure to use IMAP (as suggested by many) but it still shows the account offline in Mail & says "invalid credentials". I synced my iPhone & gmail works on it in Mail, no problem sending or receiving to/from any account.
Also, the test messages I've sent when signed into google mail won't show up in Mail in my hotmail folder (but do go through to my hotmail if I sign into it through Safari) but WILL show up if I send it to my other (non-hotmail) account.
This doesn't make any sense! I've deleted & re-set up my account a bunch of times too.
Help!

G'day,
You need to make sure that you follow these instructions:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=75725
In short, there are two steps:
1) Enable IMAP in Gmail (http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77695)
2) Configure Mail (http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=180188)
Cheers,
Rodney

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