Tag: gmail
How to make a copy of all your Gmail emails before you delete them.
I use a spark as my OS X email client but my mail is hosted by Google. After about seven years I found that I reached Google’s free 15 GB email limit and I could not receive any more emails. I could have started all over again with a new Gmail account but I wanted…
How to open a URL in a certain browser.
One click on this icon in my dock and Google calendar opens in Firefox from my Dubbo.org G-mail account. This script has chosen the browser and the website and the account that I want to be logged into when I visit the website. This article below describes how to write the script to open a…
How to open a browser window that’s logged into a specified Google account
I have four different Google accounts and quite often I find myself in a browser in the wrong account. For example I might be trying to edit my church calendar, which resides in my work Google account, but because I have just been reading my personal mail in Gmail, I am logged into that Google…
How to change the default OS X email Application.
I’m not sure why – I must’ve changed a setting somewhere – but recently whenever I click ‘send an email’ in OS X it opens up a Chrome browser window and tries to send a new email through Gmail. I wanted to send email with the old fashioned OS X Mail app. I went searching…
Not getting new emails after OS X upgrade
Since OS X Mojave my Apple mail stops getting new emails every few months. This seems to occur with each new OSX upgrade. (e.g. 10.14.3 to 10.14.4) The mail app loses the password for the Gmail accounts, a lightning symbol appears next to each account, and no new emails come in. There’s a simple fix,…
How to set up Gmail in Apple Mail
Gmail seems to be the main email provider and no wonder – it is free and it has the best spam filtering and protection. But the Gmail web interface is a bit clunky so it is nice to be able to use Gmail with the built in Apple mail program. Here’s how to set up…
Apple support Scam
In Australia there is a very clever scam going on at the moment. When your email stops working, you may get a call from someone claiming they are from ‘Apple Support.’ It may be a polite greeting like ‘Hello this is Mary from Apple Support and we’ve noticed you’ve had a problem with your Gmail…
Apple Mail can’t find my Gmail messages
If your Gmail messages stop appearing in Apple Mail, or you can’t send emails, or you are getting an error message, here are some tricks to try.
How to sync your Apple Contacts with Google contacts
I just wanted to make a quick note that it’s 3 years since I wrote this article and this is still the best sync utility for OSX and Google contacts. It’s available from the Appel store. It synchronises your Apple Contacts (from iCloud) with your Google contacts. This means that any contacts or groups you…
What to do when Apple mail is telling you that your Google password is wrong
If you get a message in Apple Mail saying that “the user name or password for ‘imap.gmail.com’ is incorrect” but you know that your email address and Password are the right ones, here are some things to try.
Google Inbox iOS app – a great alternative to Apple Mail App
Google Inbox has become my preferred email app for my iPhone. I have been using it alongside Apple Mail for about a year but in the last couple of months I have completely ditched the Apple Mail app in favour of Google Inbox. It’s just lovely to use, where do I start?
Gmail messages stuck in Outbox in Apple Mail in Yosemite
Today I discovered a whole pile of messages in my “On my Mac: Outbox” and no matter what I tried I couldn’t get them to send. I use gmail as my mail server. The emails looked like they were sending – there was no error message – but they didn’t actually send. They were still…
How to move all your gmail messages from one account to another
This article is a bit too technical for macintoshhowto.com so I’ve posted it over on my other blog here. I you are wondering how to move all your messages from one gmail account to a different gmail account, via your mac, you may want to check it out.
How to delete an email on Gmail but keep it on your Mac
What do you do if you wish to delete emails to de-clutter your Gmail account, but you’d like to keep a copy of some emails in case you need them in the future? If you use Gmail in the Apple mail app, and you delete an email in Gmail, it’s deleted from your computer as well. There is, however, a…
Improving OS X Email – How many emails do I have in my gmail account?
I’ve had gmail account for over 5 years and as the number of emails stored at google mail has increased Apple mail has slowed down. Recently it got to the point where Apple mail almost came to a grinding halt. When I checked my mail sometimes it would take up to 5 minutes to finish checking the…
How to get Gmail to send mail in OSX 10.9 Mavericks
So it turns out there can be a glitch with Mavericks and Gmail. When I installed Mavericks on my Macbook Pro, all my messages piled up into my outbox, but weren’t sent. It turned out that Mail wasn’t picking up my password properly from the System Preferences. Here’s how I got it going.
How to access your gmail contacts from Apple Contacts app.
This article has been updated here: How to sync your Apple address book with Google contacts The method below is obsolete but I have left it here for reference in case you are running an older version of OS X.
How to set up Apple mail to work with a Gmail account. (This is the original article from 2013)
How to set up email for Google gmail on your mac.