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"Sending of password for user me@gmail.com did not succeed...Web login required"

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I was receiving the following error for GMail despite my online password being fine:

"Sending of password for user me@gmail.com did not succeed...Web login required"

I was receiving the following error for GMail despite my online password being fine: "Sending of password for user me@gmail.com did not succeed...Web login required"

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I replaced "googlemail.com" (as I had been using for a long time) with "gmail.com" as mentioned on their site and the problem went away.

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I replaced "googlemail.com" (as I had been using for a long time) with "gmail.com" as mentioned on their site and the problem went away.