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The alternative it that your Google email is also your Apple ID and you were using that as your iMessages 'registered' ID. if you have an Google email account then the System may have added it to Messages for you. You were using Lion (iChat 6) before moving to Mountain Lion (Messages 7) or directly to Mavericks (Messages 8) then the System Preferences > Mail, Contacts and Calendars pane in Mountain Lion and Internet Accounts in Mavericks may have activated a Google Email account for Messages as well as the Mail app. Instead of using and/or as the Server Name, Google use t Google allow both the and the names to be valid as their Jabber IDs but this causes a naming issue in most Jabber based apps.Īpple got around this in iChat 4 (and through to Messages 8 in Mavericks) by creating a separate Google Login process. Most have the format of the Jabber ID being a username a or net (as in to use the Australian server as an example). Other are Public server that anyone can register with. Servers can be Private (work or home based) where only certain people can join.

The IDs look like emails but rarely are (Google being an Exception) This is a collection of servers that work together. You can also register with the AIM service (An AIM or AOL registered Name or an Apple ID issued by Apple and and that are linked to an iCloud account) ( There was a time when Apple Issued name under the MobileMe service but these will not longer work for iMessages if they were allowed to lapse at the closure of MobileMe/Start of iCloud).

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IMessages takes an Apple ID to 'register' your Mac with the iMessages service (run by Apple and is Mac and iOS only) IMessages is just one account that you can use. The Messages app can login to several different Services that do 'messaging' in one form or another. I am going to phrase this a little differently. This should list port 5223 and the Server if you come from a older Google Mail ID rather than Hangouts. (The List can be dragged into any order - except in Yosemite, Bonjour will always go to the bottom when you restarted the App).

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In the Account page you can use Two Step verification - this also does not work well with Messages so if it is ON turn it Off and then Enable the Less Secure Apps option as this will allow you to login using SSL.Ĭheck the two Accounts you have and the ending of the Google ID is use. To allow this you have to login to Google (I do it on the Web Mail page) then access the Account option by using my ID top right as a drop down.

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Obviously the Password should be the same as you use at Google.Īt this point Google have an issue with Apps that use SSL to login securely. Google Mail uses at least two formats and and these are recognised as two different IDs by the Jabber (GoogleTalk) server involved. If you are adding it as the Google ID the ID must be the same one as it appears when logged in to the web version of Google Mail. If these is the Google ID you were talking about it you should use the password you use at Apple with this ID. IF the Messages App > Preferences > Accounts > iMessages is devoid of an ID you can use your Apple ID.

you can add it as both if it is your Apple ID). It could work in the iMessages account AND as a Google Account in Messages. Your Google ID may well also be your Apple ID. However it is my Apple ID and the Password I use at apple for it obviously works.

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I can still access this email accounts to download new emails but I cannot send as I cannot login via Dial-up any more.

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I once had a deal with an ISP that gave free email accounts back when I used Dial up. In some cases you may have made an Apple Issued ID (using an external email as a recovery email).Īpple issued Email ID include older ones, ones that have been linked to iCloud and ones themselves.Įxternal ones can be from anywhere such as Yahoo, Google Mail, AOL mail and so on.įor some people their email/Apple ID may be with an ISP they no longer use. One is Bonjour and the other is iMessages.Įven if you skipped adding the Apple ID and went to the Preferences to Add other account types, the iMessages and Bonjour ones would still be listed as they cannot be deleted (only turned Off/Deactivated).Īn Apple ID can be any Email you have used to register at Apple. Normally on first Run the Messages App asks for an Apple ID for the iMessages account.Īt this point if you went to the Messages App > Preferences > Accounts you would see two Accounts.

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