Hi Philippe
Have you enabled two factor authentication? If so you need to generate an
app-specific password for Mail I think.
It could also be that you’ve exceeded the number of simultaneous IMAP
connections allowed to gmail, does the problem happen when just your iPhone is
connecting?
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On 14 Jan 2014, at 18:05, philippe chandless <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good evening Smuggers,
>
> My main mail account is with gmail using an alias. Whenever I try to send a
> mail from the Mail app on my iPad I get a message saying the password or
> username for Gmail is incorrect.
>
> My iPhone has exactly the same set up in settings, using a generic imap
> account with the alias as the address rather than the 'branded' gmail
> account. All the settings are exactly the same (I've checked 3 times) and
> everything works fine. Both devices have iOS 7.
>
> It's getting quite frustrating. I've tried using the gmail app but I don't
> like it and it won't play with my other, non-gmail, accounts.
>
> Can anyone recommend either a solution or a decent mail app?
>
> Thanks
> Philippe
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