Gmail doesn’t appear to be working

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I have a W10 Home machine with 1909 operating system and OS build 18363.900.

Since this afternoon it appears that Gmail has stopped working.  I have a Linked Account with Gmail and Yahoo.  This afternoon I attempted to sent a message with a 3.28 MB picture.  The message never left the ‘Outbox’.   I attempted to send a test message without a picture and it also hung up in the Outbox.  I have not received all the normal ‘garbage’ mail that normally comes to that address.

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Are you accessing G-mail through your browser, or with a local e-mail client?

When you say ‘linked’, does that mean one address forwards to the other? ie- your Yahoo e-mail forwards to the G-mail account? Can you log in and access/use just the Yahoo account?

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I always test the web client in a browser if I have email issues. Then you know if it’s you or the email system.

As this started after attempting to send a large(ish) attachment it may be your email client. Remove the message from the outbox and try again.

cheers, Paul

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Elly wrote:

Are you accessing G-mail through your browser, or with a local e-mail client?

When you say ‘linked’, does that mean one address forwards to the other? ie- your Yahoo e-mail forwards to the G-mail account? Can you log in and access/use just the Yahoo account?

I am using the Windows 10 e-mail client, the inbox is linked between my Gmail address and my Yahoo address.  The Yahoo traffic is coming through, the Gmail traffic isn’t.

Accessing Gmail.com through the browser and it is active.

I have deleted the messages that were hung up on the Outbox.

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QQ: Are you using pop3 or IMAP in your email client for Gmail?

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Microfix wrote:

QQ: Are you using pop3 or IMAP in your email client for Gmail?

I am not using POP3 so I guess it must be IMAP

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you could try: https://support.google.com/mail/#topic=7065107
Select ‘Fix a problem’ and choose the category that matches the trouble you are having.

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I have two W10 machines – a Desktop (the one that I am having trouble with) and a Laptop.  The Laptop is getting Gmail, the Desktop has stopped communicating with Gmail.

That I can tell – both machines have the same configuration.  Rebooting the Desktop has not fixed the problem.

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If Gmail is working, but your mail client is not retrieving it, it sounds as if your Gmail profile in Outlook could be corrupted.  You may have to re-create it from scratch.  One precaution could be to move the suspect profile from where Outlook keeps it, in my case C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook, create a new profile, and see whether that solves it.  If this doesn’t, you can move the profile back from where you stored it, and try something else.

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Are you getting any error messages in Outlook?

cheers, Paul

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Paul T wrote:

Are you getting any error messages in Outlook?

cheers, Paul

None that I can see.

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ScotchJohn wrote:

If Gmail is working, but your mail client is not retrieving it, it sounds as if your Gmail profile in Outlook could be corrupted.  You may have to re-create it from scratch.  One precaution could be to move the suspect profile from where Outlook keeps it, in my case C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook, create a new profile, and see whether that solves it.  If this doesn’t, you can move the profile back from where you stored it, and try something else.

Looking through my C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\ – I do not see a Outlook folder.  The Microsoft\Windows folder also does not have a Outlook folder.

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I’ve probably missed this, what email client doesn’t work?

cheers, Paul

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WSmmi16 wrote:

Looking through my C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\ – I do not see a Outlook folder. The Microsoft\Windows folder also does not have a Outlook folder.

The location of your Outlook mail profile may vary if you have a different version of Microsoft Outlook – for the avoidance of doubt, the component of Microsoft Office.  I use Office 2010 and 2013, and, in both of those, that is the location of the profiles.  To discover where yours are, if different, open Outlook – this is for Outlook 2010 – File > Account Settings > Data Files.  The files with extension PST are the profiles; in Outlook 2013 the file extension is OST

I hope this helps.  If not, then just use File Explorer to search for PST or OST files.

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WSmmi16 wrote:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook

I think that you were not looking in the correct place.  Above is the correct path, at least it is on my machines using Office 2010 and 2013.

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Paul T wrote:

I’ve probably missed this, what email client doesn’t work?

cheers, Paul

I have both Yahoo and Gmail accounts on my W10 Desktop.  Yahoo works, Gmail doesn’t.

The Gmail account is the one that is not working on my W10 Desktop.  I also have a W10 Laptop and Gmail is working fine on that machine.

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What actually doesn’t work?
Do you have a Gmail app? Outlook? Win10 Mail? Browser?
How have you set up the Gmail account in the client, POP, IMAP?

cheers, Paul

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The OP originally stated they were using the Windows Mail App, not Outlook.

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Paul T wrote:

What actually doesn’t work?
Do you have a Gmail app? Outlook? Win10 Mail? Browser?
How have you set up the Gmail account in the client, POP, IMAP?

cheers, Paul

What ever the app is that displays a mostly blue ‘envelope’ on my task bar.  I believe that is the Win10 mail program, not Outlook.  It is not a POP3 account and is only used for Yahoo and Gmail.  Rebooting the system does not restore the program to operation on the Gmail account.  The Yahoo account keeps on ‘chugging along’.  This is on my W10 Desktop machine.  I have a W10 Laptop that has the same settings, as far as I can tell, and Gmail comes through to that machine as well as the Yahoo account.

I am running 1909 Operating System with OS build 18363.959.

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WSmmi16 wrote:

I have a W10 Laptop that has the same settings, as far as I can tell,

my bolding

From within the W10 email application on your desktop, double check the gmail account settings against the gmail settings of your laptop thoroughly. If there is a difference on the desktop gmail settings compared to the laptop, use the laptop gmail settings as a reference to change it to reflect the laptop settings.

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Microfix wrote:

WSmmi16 wrote:

I have a W10 Laptop that has the same settings, as far as I can tell,

my bolding

From within the W10 email application on your desktop, double check the gmail account settings against the gmail settings of your laptop thoroughly. If there is a difference on the desktop gmail settings compared to the laptop, use the laptop gmail settings as a reference to change it to reflect the laptop settings.

Changed to Desktop Gmail settings to exactly match the Laptop Gmail settings.

No Joy!

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Desktop

Laptop

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Try deleting the gmail account from Windows 10 mail, then recreate it.

cheers, Paul

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Paul T wrote:

Try deleting the gmail account from Windows 10 mail, then recreate it.

cheers, Paul

Deleted and began anew!

Problem – apparently I have forgotten the password for my account and the computer has not remembered it either.

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Went through the ‘forgot password’ routine on the recovery machine on my network and then changed the password. When I come back to the W10 Desktop and enter the NEW password it gets kicked!

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Try this:

• Go to the google gmail site.
• Change your password from there.
• Make sure you can login at the gmail site.
• Then reestablish your local gmail account.

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Success – after changing my Google password eventually it was accepted when I ‘fixed’ my ‘new’ Gmail account.

I have no idea why it took about 10 minutes from the time I changed the password for it to become effective to where Gmail would accept it.

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Elly

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verification checks aren’t immediate, especially with sensitive data.
Good to hear it’s sorted, NOW remember to take note of your password and keep it somewhere safe as well as back it up 🙂

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