Mail setup problem

I've had my macbook since November and have had no problems with Mail. Last night I opened it to check emails on two accounts and only one would work. Tried setting up the account again and get the following message "Logging in to the Gmail IMAP server “imap.gmail.com” failed." The username and password is correct.
I deleted the other account and set it up again and that works fine.

I faced this annoying problem before.
The solution is adding an yahoo mailbox on your phone first. By doing this, you have registered a Nokia Messaging account with that yahoo email address. Then try adding your gmail mailbox again. The wizard will ask you to use the same Nokia Messaging account or create a seperate one, you have to choose to use the same. Now your newly added gmail mailbox will work normally. And you can delete that yahoo mailbox w/o problems.

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Hello gbol,
I understand you are having trouble setting up four POP email accounts on your iPhone 6. Have you tried to back up your iPad Air to iCloud and restore your new iPhone from that backup? That may be one way to resolve this issue.
Transfer content from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to a new device - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-is/HT201269
The resource below provides some adiitional information regarding using POP accounts.
Using a POP account with more than one device - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201855
Hope that helps ...
- Judy

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Both accounts are POP and are functioning normally as configured on both my iMac and MacBook, so I believe it a simple operation to get started during my initial iPhone 4 setup. However, when I ask people at the Apple store (physical) and at AT&T, I get frowns, plus the "Well, you may have problems there. . ."
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Have you tried deleting the gmail account and readding it back?
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Mail Setup Problem - Postfix error for username

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Did you sign up for a .Mac trial account which is provided with each new Mac purchase and is good for 60 days or do you already have a .Mac paid account?
If not, you cannot create and access a .Mac account.
.Mac is the right account type if you have a .Mac account. With the Mail application your can create/access a .Mac account as a .Mac type account (which is really an IMAP account and behaves in the same way), IMAP or POP and you can create a .Mac account as an IMAP or POP account with other email clients on your Mac or on a Windows PC.
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IMPORTANT: I found the solution. Another user figured it out and posted the answer on another thread.
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hi venom_f1
as asdivsed in this forum for setting up email on e72, i tried everything, used gprs deleted my wifi acccess point.
finally i have downloaded emoze application from ovi store, its free , i have setup 3 accounts with it, it works fine. at side even i try to setup nokia email , but it dosnt.
i will advise you to use emoze temperory or else you will get upset with your handset.
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

Thanks for your input, Crusch.
Your experience seems to confirm that
the E-mail setup dialog has been introduced by a recent software upgrade,
it appears whenever the phone registers on a foreign network
this behaviour is not caused by an isolated software glitch on my own phone, and it affects several phone models.
The problem now is to find a way of 'satisfying' the E-mail setup application so that it does not repeatedly reappear. The feature is undocumented as far as I can find, and Nokia Support staff can only suggest a 'reset' of the phone. I think point 3 above implies that a reset is unlikely to solve the problem.
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Nokia N8 mail setup

Hi,
i tried to setup my mail account on the Nokia N8, it tries to configure the account but then there is an error: Service currently unavailable, try again later
I successfuly set up an other mail account.
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[email protected]

hey, if you read up a few posts... i was able to resolve my problem with yahoo mail:
<<<after further research, it turns out that there are in fact periodic problems on Yahoo's end that cause this error creating a Yahoo mail account on a new iPad. While several repeated attempts to create the account failed at the time, i tried again a day later and it was successful. So problem solved.>>>
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