Can't add IMAP

[callthatgirl]

Also, I had a client last week that the security was missing, so it was "special" lol

Please go to your admin console > Security > 2-Step Verification > enable this option "Allow users to turn on 2-Step Verification" Google Workspace Support

 

[jogold]

@callthatgirl the 2 step isn't there at all

 

[callthatgirl]

see my last post?

 

[jogold]

@callthatgirl there is not admin console as its a regular gmail account, nothing fancy.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Also, I had a client last week that the security was missing, so it was "special" lol

Please go to your admin console > Security > 2-Step Verification > enable this option "Allow users to turn on 2-Step Verification" Google Workspace Support

Valid point. Is this for Google WORKSPACE? The paid for version of Gmail? If so the administrator can disable 2FA per user account.

 

[jogold]

i found it

 

[callthatgirl]

Weird, try changing the password, that might be it.

 

[nlinecomputers]

I hear the relays clicking…sorry. Nothing is more annoying than finding something that was in plain sight. Google does this just to mock us.

 

[callthatgirl]

Google makes me so much money, I can't hate it.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Google makes me so much money, I can't hate it.

Replace with Microsoft, Intuit, Adobe….

 

[jogold]

Thank you all, now it works, wish that there was a way to delete my posts. Doesn't make me look very good.

 

[callthatgirl]

@nlinecomputers I do when the client wants to, it's up to them.

@jogold lol, we all have these posts out there. It's ok. Glad you got it, I know the frustration.

 

[britechguy]

Doesn't make me look very good.

Seconding @callthatgirl. It just goes to show that any one of us can get caught up in the "{Insert Company Here} circles of hell." You're far from alone and aren't the first nor will be the last.

Go have whatever drink is of your choosing. The sun is definitely over the yardarm in Belgium!

 

[britechguy]

Google makes me so much money, I can't hate it.

As someone else said, {Insert company here} for Google.

But in any case, I can still hate 'em even if what they do has the indirect result of making me money. Stupidity, which seems to be far too common in corporate decision making, chafes me no matter what.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Thank you all, now it works, wish that there was a way to delete my posts. Doesn't make me look very good.

As others pointed out don't do that. Besides, we still have your original problem. Google shouldn't force you to use an App Password though often it does for reasons beyond understanding. It should work like your other 5 accounts.

 

[britechguy]

Google shouldn't force you to use an App Password though often it does for reasons beyond understanding. It should work like your other 5 accounts.

While I agree, I am grateful that a very convenient workaround exists (or second option exists, depending on your viewpoint). Who knows what odd, possibly completely idiosyncratic, bug/issue is at work. That "Plan B" when it occurs is really handy.

 

[Markverhyden]

Thank you all, now it works, wish that there was a way to delete my posts. Doesn't make me look very good.

You'll get over it. We already did.

 

[callthatgirl]

@nlinecomputers

Google shouldn't force you to use an App Password though often it does for reasons beyond understanding.

Google and Microsoft are at war, anything they can do to eff each other over works. Mac is Switzerland. This is how I explain it to my clients when they want their Google calendar on their free Gmail account in Outlook Desktop to sync with their iPhone

 

[jogold]

Oh, please don't start about syncing calendar and contacts between the two.

 

[callthatgirl]

I'll chat about that all day long, it's my bread and butter work.