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I set up MAIL to receive/send gmail yesterday. It seemed to work fine. However, in trying to send e-mail this morning I keep getting an error: cannot send using pop.gmail or smpt.gmail or whatever...I have deleted POP accounts I had (carolina.rr.com) because I no longer have that service. Should I set up MAIL with a POP rather than an IMAP??? Does it make a difference which formula I use? MAIL is v.2.1.3.

Klaus1, I followed those instructions for an IMAP set up. It worked fine yesterday. However, this morning when I tried to send e-mails from MAIL it said it couldn't send them via gmail server. I went into Preferences and made sure that all POP in/out servers were deleted (carolina.rr.com via timewarner) so there could be no confusion: Just the IMAP info remains. I have two e-mails parked in the outbox because everytime I try to send them I get that same error message.

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Tyashinsky wrote:
I just recently up graded to OS Lion. My Apple Mail program won't send emails out of my gmail account. It will receive them but won't send them. I got my google apps email to work but my normal gmail ones won't work. The settings are as follows:
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