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I have several Gmail accounts. One in particular started demanding the password before sending emails. I have two factor authentication with the unrecoverable password so I had to delete the account and create it again.
This has led to Mail.app not synching that account anymore. I have the disconnected thunderbolt symbol over it, and hitting the send/receive button seems to do nothing.
Is there something I can do to force Mail.app to work normally with that account? All others are fine.
Under Accounts in Preferences, there's a field there called "Email Address:". You can put a comma-separated list of addresses in there, like this:
Now your "Compose" window will have a "From" popup menu that lets you choose your sending address:
AFAIK, this works for pretty much any mail account type, as long as your mail provider allows you to muck around with the From: header.
Set up a new empty email box (perhaps with server side quota or rules to delete all mail immediately upon receipt).
Enter those credentials as a new account in Mail.app and end the sending credentials and server for this shell account.
Now you can send from the account you want and have no emails coming in.
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Tested on a 10.10.3 Yosemite MBP. I assume that you have created the Gmail account in the first place and that an entry exists in the Accounts tab of Preferences in Mail.app.
If you have enabled two factor authentication in your Google account then you need to create an App Password at https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords?pli=1. This is a critical step.
Take this password you have just generated and go to Mail.app > Preferences > Accounts > your Google IMAP Account > Password field and add that password. Copy/paste works.
If it's a problem just to send mail, from the same place click the Outgoing Mail Server dropdown > Edit SMTP Server List... tab > smtp.gmail.com > Advanced tab > Password field and populate it with the same Google App Password.
Either way, close preferences and say yes when prompted to save changes.
Now, still in Mail.app, click Window > Connection Doctor and investigate the information there. You are looking for two entries, one is Google IMAP and one is SMTP next to the Google account name you are concerned with.
If you have green lights, you are good to go. Red lights indicate a server communication problem.
You can change passwords now that you know where without deleting/creating a new account every time you have an issue.