Thanks for the quick reply Charlie. I just confirmed that both iMacs and all associated applications (Apple Mail & Spanning Sync) have the proper passwords via the Keychain application. I guess this makes it more likely that someone is trying to get into his account?
Thanks, Rob On Feb 22, 11:50 am, cwood <[email protected]> wrote: > The sync frequency isn't a problem. It sounds like there's some > process (or some person) who's repeatedly trying to log into your > father's account with the wrong password. After a certain number of > failed attempts, Google will require a CAPTCHA to log in. Spanning > Sync catches this condition though, and will show a dialog with the > CAPTCHA and ask you to solve it. > > Do you have anything else syncing with your father's account? I > suggest making sure everything that does is doing so with the right > username/password. > > Thanks, > Charlie > > On Feb 22, 10:43 am, rbernabe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi All > > > I've searched the forums but don't see this problem anywhere. I have > > my father's Gmail account setup in Apple Mail (IMAP) on both his home > > and work iMacs. About 5 times now the google account has been > > disabled, but not completely. I'd have to login via the web UI > > (gmail.com) and enter in his username/password plus verify a captcha > > image, then it would enable the account again. > > > At first I thought it might be the sync frequency settings (every 30 > > minutes I think) that would be causing this. Combining this with him > > leaving Mail.app open all the time and it syncing mail every 5 > > minutes, I thought it would be the problem. But it seems like > > lowering the Spanning Sync frequency isnt helping as I had the same > > problem this morning. Has anyone else been having these issues? > > > Thanks, > > Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Spanning Sync" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spanningsync?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
