Title: error while connecting to gmail
Last modified: June 12, 2019

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# error while connecting to gmail

 *  Resolved [tsolignani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsolignani/)
 * (@tsolignani)
 * [6 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-while-connecting-to-gmail/)
 * using postie after some time I had no need to, I get this error while trying 
   to retrieve mails from a gmail account:
 * getemails: IMAP – Could not connect to IMAP server imap.gmail.com on port 993.
   Array ( [0] => * NO [WEBALERT [https://accounts.google.com/signin/continue?sarp=1&scc=1&plt=AKgnsbtAw1dUhkewAmEiXSCt-sn3_PHZ4dVKIXVGG88XF0xTrGHIUeYCYA3BJAKuC6PjfC_1JXY40XmqIa6cbyrQfqfHU0x4v-vUhHDAto3xTSr9KTcUDYqVPC3LSVBd9TgsRcX3G0rt%5D](https://accounts.google.com/signin/continue?sarp=1&scc=1&plt=AKgnsbtAw1dUhkewAmEiXSCt-sn3_PHZ4dVKIXVGG88XF0xTrGHIUeYCYA3BJAKuC6PjfC_1JXY40XmqIa6cbyrQfqfHU0x4v-vUhHDAto3xTSr9KTcUDYqVPC3LSVBd9TgsRcX3G0rt%5D)
   Web login required. [1] => A0002 NO [ALERT] Please log in via your web browser:
   [https://support.google.com/mail/accounts/answer/78754](https://support.google.com/mail/accounts/answer/78754)(
   Failure) )
 * I tried logging it and it does but then postie still don’t work.
 * IMAP is enabled, I just checked.
 * Any idea?
 * Thank you.

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 *  Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/)
 * (@wayneallen-1)
 * [6 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-while-connecting-to-gmail/#post-11631062)
 * Take a look at the second half of this article [http://postieplugin.com/postie-gmail/](http://postieplugin.com/postie-gmail/)
 *  Thread Starter [tsolignani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsolignani/)
 * (@tsolignani)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-while-connecting-to-gmail/#post-11659628)
 * Thank you. It fixed it.

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