MacMail Problem: why do I have a Google mailbox? & and how do I get rid of it?

Factual Questions
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We have e-mail accounts with our local internet provider. They work fine.

But somehow we now has a Google inbox listed under our e-mail accounts. We have no idea how it got there.

Worse, Google Mail keeps trying to connect throughout IP, and sometimes nuggets up the connection for our e-mail accounts.

It keeps trying to log-on, with some sort of notification popping up all the time in the bottom left-hand corner of the Mail program.

Does anyone have any idea where this came from? And how to get rid of it?

Thanks!

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And a follow-up question: why does my ampersand get turned into “&” in the thread title?

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Follow up to the follow up: Why does the ampersand NOT get turned into “&ampamp”? Or, for that matter, “&ampampamp”. I could go on.

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I was wondering that too.

So many questions!

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I wish I could answer your main one. Do you actually have a google/gmail account?

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I do, but I only use it for this place. It’s web-based, of course, while Mac Mail is an app on my Mac book.

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No it isn’t, of course.

YOU like to use gmail as a web-based mailbox, but it has interfaces to support reading it through a “regular” mail reader application. So, somehow, someone or something “very helpfully” :rolleyes: set up the credentials to access gmail in Mac Mail, so that mailbox appears along side the others.

Very often, the setup process of a mail reader program can find credentials for mailboxes you don’t directly provide and “helpfully” set them up for you, whether you want to or not.

I imagine there’s a method of removing the mailbox from the list of mailboxes in Mac Mail, but I don’t do Macincrap so I don’t personally know it.

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You can remove unwanted mail accounts in Mail->Preferences->Accounts
Just uncheck “Enable this Account”

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So you just decided to come into a GQ thread, admit that you don’t know the answer, make snarky comments, criticise my choice of computer platform, and leave.

Bit of a contrast between your user name and your actual level of knowledge. :dubious:

Thank you so much. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

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Compared to this, straightforward, helpful and knowledgeable, and actually answering the question. :slight_smile:

Thanks, beowulff!

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Irony. It is a difficult concept.

I’m here to fight ignorance.

Characterizing gmail as “web mail” is ignorance. Q.E.D. And :rolleyes: right back atcha! :smiley:

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Yes it is, of course. The fact that you can access gmail using POP3 and IMAP doesn’t mean it is not web-based. Characterizing it as webmail is perfectly accurate.

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IMAP access didn’t come along until a couple of years after launch, certainly after it was open to everyone. It was fairly noteworthy at the time that they were offering it for free. But, yeah, gmail is very much webmail in philosophy, design and implementation.