Outlook has been acting very strangely since gmail notified me that it had prevented someone logging into my gmail account this afternoon. I reset my google password, and that's when the Outlook problems started. I can't recount or even remember all the steps I took to try to resolve them. For a while I could download email from gmail using POP but not send email from Outlook via my gmail POP server. (Btw I'm using a desktop and 10.7.5.) Eventually I changed the gmail security settings to enable basic security. It was at that point I believe that I was able to send messages, but since then I cannot download new mail from gmail. Instead, when I click Send/Receive, gmail downloads about 200 or 300 old messages at a time, starting (I think) with the oldest messages I have in my gmail account, anyway they're from 2007 and they are downloading in order of date. And it doesn't download them into "On my computer" in my inbox, but into a new subdivision of my inbox called "Gmail", presumably corresponding to a new account I created in Outlook today called "Gmail" after deleting the previous account (I thought that by starting from scratch I might be able to get things working properly). Btw I tried to create two other outgoing POP accounts using my ISP's outgoing server about a week ago, but we never managed to deal with verification issues, they never worked, but even after I deleted those accounts Outlook still tried to send mail through those (apparently non-existent) accounts - until this afternoon, after I deleted all google keychains in my Keychain access app (at least I think there may have been a connection with that, but as I said I tried so many different things relating to the Outlook error message I was getting that it may have been something else) There are currently no Google account keychains in that app.

What the heck is going on - anyone have an idea?