Simply put, if the address and password are correct, blame on Gmail’s new 2-Step Authentication method. Don’t get me wrong, I love it because it’s the best way to protect and secure my Gmail account. And that also doesn’t mean you can’t connect it to your Windows 8 Mail app. It just need one extra step.
Before adding your 2-step authentication protected Gmail to the Mail app,
1. Go to the Authorized Access to your Google Account page, sign in if haven’t.
2. Type in a name to the new password and click Generate password button to generate a new Application-specific password from near the bottom of the page.
3. Go back to Windows 8 Mail app, use the new generated password to add a new mail account there. Note that there is no space in the password, even though it looks like three spaces there.
4. Hoola. All set.
If a Metra App that integrates your Gmail account doesn’t take your password, you probably need to go through this process again to set it up.
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I can’t find where to add account to the mail App!!! haha this info will be helpful once I find that.
Not sure if you got this yet. Once you are in email app.. charms bar is ur friend
Atlast. THANK YOU SOO FUCKING MUCH
Super! Thanks….it save me some hair!
Didn’t Google drop support for EAS recently? I’m unable to get mine to connect, even when using the app key
I think the backdoor has been shut by Google lately. So this should work for you.
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Google-s-two-factor-authentication-bypassed-1811825.html
Cheers.