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x19dave
Jan 11, 2012, 09:33 AM
Hi trying to get my orange (fsnet) email sent to my gmail account and keep getting a 'Could not validate this combination of email address and password'
Any ideas please I not great on computers so please keep it basic

Thanks

ebaines
Jan 11, 2012, 09:45 AM
Are you using Google's 2-step authentication process? If so you need to get a special dedicated password specifically for this application. See:
Signing in using application-specific passwords - Accounts Help (http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guide.cs&guide=1056283&answer=185833&rd=3)

x19dave
Jan 11, 2012, 10:12 AM
Sorry still does not work but I colud be doing something wrong

Cheers

ebaines
Jan 11, 2012, 10:51 AM
Couple of hints - in setting up the forwarding on your orange account use your regular gmail login ID including ".gmail.com" and copy and paste the special one-time password that Google gives you into the application, as opposed to entering your regular password. Make sure you have enabled imap on your gmail account - see:
https://support.google.com/mail/bin/static.py?hl=en&ts=1668960&page=ts.cs
The correct inbound gmail server is imap.gmail.com.