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Gmail Inbox messages disappeared

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cynthiapaulikot replied 2 years ago
cynthiapaulikot
cynthiapaulikot

One of my gmail account inboxes got a message "Authentification failure while connecting to server imap.gmail.com". I tried to repair the inbox and now all messages are gone. My other gmail accounts are receiving new messages.

One of my gmail account inboxes got a message "Authentification failure while connecting to server imap.gmail.com". I tried to repair the inbox and now all messages are gone. My other gmail accounts are receiving new messages.

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Matt
Matt
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You are not connected to gmail as your authentication failed, so any attempt to repair will see an index with no mail as the server can not be contacted to check what is current in the folder.

Try restarting your device.

cynthiapaulikot
cynthiapaulikot Question owner

Tried that. Didn't work.