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A year ago I set up Mail to get mail from three Gmail accounts (two for work, one for friends). Everything was working fine until today. Today Mail won't access one of the accounts. They've all got the same Incoming and Outgoing settings, the same Port number -- everything is the same. Even the passwords are the same. Nothing has changed at all. I tried logging into all 3 accounts through Gmail with no problems. Apple Mail seems to think my password has changed, but it has not.
I tried restarting, I tried Repairing Permissions, I tried all the usual maintenance stuff, but it still won't work on this one account.
Anyone have any idea how I can get Mail to access my Gmail again? It's totally bizarre that it's picked this one of triplet accounts to decide it can no longer access.

Same with me here...
Hey, come on, i can't connect so any more of my Gmail accounts using mail 3.6 (+ the 10.5.7 update too), my University mail account works (configured having a mail.any_university.com server).
Hey apple guys, this can't be...!???!
Maybe you should concentrate a little more on things your computer users need than on making a new iphone that is smaller than a walnut.
I wanna be able to check my mails again !

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