Is IMAP/POP3 Gmail or Gtalk periodically rejecting your password?
Posted on October 6, 2008 by snipe in Featured, Tips & Tricks
I have run into this many times: my Gtalk password is stored in my email program (Thunderbird as an IMAP account) and my Gtalk password is stored in Adium, and every now and then, when I start my computer, Google tells me my password is wrong.
I can’t login to Gtalk, I can’t check my email. Accessing Gmail via the web interface works fine, so I know Google isn’t down, but every time I check mail in Thunderbird, I get a password error. I faithfully retype my password, only to have it reject it anyway.
Using Adium, I can logon to AIM, Yahoo, even LJ Chat (tho I don’t know why I ever would), but every moment or two, I get a password prompt. If I pull up the Accounts screen and try to manually connect, it gets to “Authenticating: 75%” and then hits me with another password box.
While I have no idea why this works, it does:
- Quit/close your email client (Thunderbird, in my case)
- Quit/close your chat program (Adium in my case)
- Go to https://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha
- Complete the captcha prompt there and submit the form
- Restart your email and chat clients – all should be well.
It would seem some of sort of authentication bug with Google. The captcha gets all of the services back on the same page.
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I have similar experiences. I’ve set up fetchmail to fetch emails from my gmail accounts to private mail server and about one- or two times per week I get notify from fetchmail daemon that my password is rejected. But I don’t need to “unlock” that account, after some minutes gmail happily accepts that pw. This seems to happen more often on other account which I don’t use that much.
Strange, but obviously I’m not alone.
Huh.. I thought I might be the only one. I get this happening to me in Outlook all the time. Thanks, I’ll try it.
Yah, its really aggravating, and I wish I had a long-term fix for it. Sometimes it will happen several times a day, and other times not for a week. Puzzling, but I haven’t found any solution or explanation from Google. Let me know if you guys do
Your IM clients may be logging in too often. See this Gmail help page:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78754&topic=12922
Thanks for the info! My email is set to check every 15 minutes or so, but that’s a good place to start!
Thank you! I had the exact same problem.
I use pop.gmail.com in thunderbird and gtalk in pidgin and I haven’t been prompted for my password and this has never happened to me.
Todd – I don’t think this is a POP3 issue – I think it only affects IMAP users.
If your addresses are hosted on google apps, go to https://www.google.com/a/your domain].com/UnlockCaptcha
Ref. http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=14257
it didn’t work
sigh
i’m so disappointed – i miss my gmail …
any other suggestions?
thanks bro, is done