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The essential page is this one: Allowing less secure apps to access your account. I was about to give up, when I noticed an error message in Mail from the Gmail server that thankfully contained the link I was searching, and access to Gmail from Mail.app under Mac OS X Tiger was restored. I then tried to look for an answer in the Gmail support pages, but my frustration and annoyance prevented me from finding what I was looking for more promptly. So I logged in via the Web interface - without any problem - and found a message from Google that told me Google prevented the sign-in because it is from “an app that doesn’t meet modern security standards.”Īt first I thought Google had updated/changed the server ports for incoming/outgoing mail, and after tweaking a few settings (I had the outgoing server port still set to ’25’ instead of ‘465’), I tried again to download my email messages. It appears that the server rejected my account password, so I was prompted to insert it again. But today I felt that a check was long overdue, so I opened Mail, clicked the Get Mail button, and I was presented with the annoying dialog box I sometimes see when there’s a network problem, the password confirmation dialog box. Since it’s low-traffic, I don’t check it very often.

I have a low-traffic Gmail account I usually check on my Power Mac G4 Cube using Mail.app in Mac OS X 10.4.11. I hope this post can help others who have stumbled upon the same issue. The solution is rather simple, but it may not be apparent at first.

I have lost more than thirty minutes trying to solve a small but annoying problem.