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Getting bit by the Gmail "exceeded IMAP bandwidth limits" bug

TUAW Nov 21 09

Filed under: Software, Tips and tricks, Bugs/Recalls, Troubleshooting, Snow Leopard

I have a couple of Gmail accounts set up with Google Apps, so that Google is hosting my email using my own domain names. While those accounts have been working flawlessly for quite a while, I suddenly ran into issues a few days ago where Apple Mail couldn't pull email from the server. I could use the Gmail Web client and access the email, but using Mail or my iPhone, I'd get an error. Both Mail and the iPhone initially reported that either my password or username was incorrect, but after restarting my MacBook Air, the message changed to what you see above. Full story...

Tagged: bandwidth limit, disk space, domain names, email client, folders, fortuitously, gmail, google,

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