Thank you sir, but I think in this case, I compounded my problem by trying to login and when that failed, trying to reset my password and just made things worse. :) However, I think I'm on the right track for correcting the mess. Thanks for the info as well.
On Aug 24, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > > If you can get new email but nothing else works, then the Mac must > know your password. You can retreive that password as follows: > 1. Open Keychain access from your utilities folder (command-shift-u) > 2 Hit tab and enter pop.gmail.com into the search text field. > 3. Hit tab a few times, and you should be in a table with just one > item. The key for your pop account. > 4. Hit command-i to view the key info. > 5. Near the bottom is a view password checkbox. > 6. You will probably be prompted for your keychain password. If you > are reading these instructions, then 99% of the time this will be the > same password as your login passowrd. > > Now you should be able to view what your system things the password > is. > > Best of luck, > > Jonathan Cohn > . > On Aug 24, 2009, at 7:24 AM, Scott Howell wrote: > >> >> I was trying to access my gmail account via the web at http://www.gmail.com >> . Although my password seems to work fine for sending e-mail from >> Apple Mail, it doesn't seem to allow incoming mail. So, my plan was >> to >> access the website and see if Mail was actually appearing on the >> site, >> but it won't let me login with the password I have been using for a >> while. Of course the other problem is I had to get help with the >> damned visual verification since the spoken bit didn't work as >> expected. So, is there another way to reset a password without >> needing >> the visual verification crap? I did get to a reset page and oddly >> enough after my wife typed in the letters required, it was to send me >> an e-mail on how to reset the password, but incredibly, it never >> showed up. My entire goal was to setup imap instead of pop and >> maybe I >> should have just left well enough alone. :) >> Any thoughts? >> >> tnx, >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
