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Constant Brouerius van nidek

19 Feb 2006 19 Feb '06

09:25

Since yesterday night I have problems with the downloading of GMail. For that I use Kmail and this worked for weeks. There where some problems at the same time with my ADSL (ISP had troubles?)but after a time laps my ADSL connection was up and running again. As I receive this message from Kmail; Could not login to pop.gmail.com. The password may be wrong. The server said: "[AUTH] Username and password not accepted." I suspected a problem with my GMail password. I can access GMail so I thought it a good idea to change my password. The new password is included in the Kmail configuration but still I get the above frustrating message. Somebody with an idea? A solution would be to use fetchmail for the downloading. This works without problem for another account. But configuring fetchmail is a too big task for me. With fetchmailconf I become stuck in inputs that I do not recognize and for a direct editing of fetchmailrc I need an exact line to put in. I could of course use the line from my other ISP but that would not garantee a faultless functioning. As far as I remember GMail wants the 995 port to be opened and some SSL and I do no see a place to include that in fetchmailrc.

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Patrick Shanahan

19 Feb 19 Feb

12:12

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* Constant Brouerius van nidek [02-19-06 04:28]:

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A solution would be to use fetchmail for the downloading. This works without problem for another account. But configuring fetchmail is a too big task for me. With fetchmailconf I become stuck in inputs that I do not recognize and for a direct editing of fetchmailrc I need an exact line to put in.

works for me: poll pop.gmail.com tracepolls with proto POP3 timeout 45 user '<your-gmail-name>@gmail.com' there with password '<acct-passwd>' is '<your-logname-on-your-box>' here options fetchall stripcr ssl mda '/usr/lib/sendmail -i -oem -f %F %T' antispam 571 550 501 554 note: 4 lines, #2 starts with "user", #3 with "mda", #4 with "antispam" -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2

C. Brouerius van Nidek

13:53

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On Sunday 19 February 2006 19:12, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Constant Brouerius van nidek [02-19-06 04:28]:

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A solution would be to use fetchmail for the downloading. This works without problem for another account. But configuring fetchmail is a too big task for me. With fetchmailconf I become stuck in inputs that I do not recognize and for a direct editing of fetchmailrc I need an exact line to put in.

works for me:

poll pop.gmail.com tracepolls with proto POP3 timeout 45 user '<your-gmail-name>@gmail.com' there with password '<acct-passwd>' is '<your-logname-on-your-box>' here options fetchall stripcr ssl mda '/usr/lib/sendmail -i -oem -f %F %T' antispam 571 550 501 554

note: 4 lines, #2 starts with "user", #3 with "mda", #4 with "antispam"

-- Dear Patrick, Thanks. As the sunday is coming to its end and Gmail is suddenly downloading (without any interference from me!!?) I will do this fetchmail part next quiet moment ;).

Carlos E. R.

15:18

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2006-02-19 at 16:25 +0700, Constant Brouerius van nidek wrote:

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A solution would be to use fetchmail for the downloading. This works without problem for another account. But configuring fetchmail is a too big task for me. With fetchmailconf I become stuck in inputs that I do not recognize and for a direct editing of fetchmailrc I need an exact line to put in. I could of course use the line from my other ISP but that would not garantee a faultless functioning. As far as I remember GMail wants the 995 port to be opened and some SSL and I do no see a place to include that in fetchmailrc.

port 995 means use default ssl, no need to specify the port; one of many posibilities would be: poll pop.gmail.com with proto pop3 timeout 50, and tracepolls user someuser@gmail.com, with password somepassword, is localuser here, fetchlimit 100 and ssl This will feed email to your MTA (postfix or sendmail or qmail or whatever you have), who will deliver it to you, locally. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFD+IxBtTMYHG2NR9URAkD9AJwOXGvVOT6D9TlRcxSoGY/mBYNPfACfaJIg 21EFFdMzcbCllousR7+7ERY= =X2ok -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

James Wright

15:26

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Google's GMail will stop working through POP occasionally. Yesterday it would not work for 4 hours with Thunderbird, but worked fine through their web interface. I use my ISP mail for time critical stuff, and GMail for other stuff. I wouldn't bank on GMail for reliability when it comes to POP. In the last year I have seen over 20 'glitches', where it would not work through my e-mail client, but worked fine through their provided interface. - James W.

C. Brouerius van Nidek

16:24

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On Sunday 19 February 2006 22:26, James Wright wrote:

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Google's GMail will stop working through POP occasionally. Yesterday it would not work for 4 hours with Thunderbird, but worked fine through their web interface. I use my ISP mail for time critical stuff, and GMail for other stuff. I wouldn't bank on GMail for reliability when it comes to POP. In the last year I have seen over 20 'glitches', where it would not work through my e-mail client, but worked fine through their provided interface.

Dear James, Thanks for this input. Think I had the same condition. No working Gmail for 4 hours. I could use Gmail web without problems so I thought that my email agent had some quark. It has cost me at least a good part of the morning to find that on my side everything was okay. Suddenly email came up again. Could we make some warning service if Gmail plays tricks with us?

John Meyer

16:23

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On Sunday 19 February 2006 22:26, James Wright wrote:

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Google's GMail will stop working through POP occasionally. Yesterday it would not work for 4 hours with Thunderbird, but worked fine through their web interface. I use my ISP mail for time critical stuff, and GMail for other stuff. I wouldn't bank on GMail for reliability when it comes to POP. In the last year I have seen over 20 'glitches', where it would not work through my e-mail client, but worked fine through their provided interface.

The only problem I've had with GMail is the smtp server not working every now and then. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD+Jt7j60GAoLuoDkRAjHLAJ44v6wdhOzd2psGOCs7mK5rAFgbQACg5anU GYAcyXLIogswFaqRQsaZ3Hc= =G3/d -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Carlos E. R.

20:16

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2006-02-19 at 10:26 -0500, James Wright wrote:

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Google's GMail will stop working through POP occasionally. Yesterday it would

I know that very well. Mine stopped working for over a month, then came back witout me doing anything. I reported that here at the time - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFD+NIJtTMYHG2NR9URAsBcAJoDf6xCe+GS/P+TEr/rQWF9PY2zSwCfVOsV EuvH/p3RYdvxrY0XCMw1WiI= =cDpB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

C. Brouerius van Nidek

20 Feb 20 Feb

13:00

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The Sunday 2006-02-19 at 10:26 -0500, James Wright wrote:

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Google's GMail will stop working through POP occasionally. Yesterday it would

I know that very well. Mine stopped working for over a month, then came back witout me doing anything. I reported that here at the time

-- Dear Carlos, Remember that you reported this problem on the list. But when it stops working you always expect some bad patch or other update on your own machine. In fact, you always first start believing the error messages with information

On Monday 20 February 2006 03:16, Carlos E. R. wrote: that the authentication and that your password is some how broken. Afterwards it is always easy to blame the real culprit ;). What I would suggest that if somebody from the list has problems with the pop.gmail.com he or she should try to find out if other list members have the same problem. Doing that it may be possible to narrow the problem. Cheers Constant

nicola .:kOoLiNuS:. losito

22 Feb 22 Feb

23:03

Alle 16:26, domenica 19 febbraio 2006, James Wright ha scritto:

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Google's GMail will stop working through POP occasionally. [cut] In the last year I have seen over 20 'glitches', where it would not work through my e-mail client, but worked fine through their provided interface.

I've seen some hang-ups increase since the introduction of gtalk capabilities into the web interface .... -- nicola .:kOoLiNuS:. losito http://www.koolinus.net http://kool-solutions.blogspot.com jabber-ID:koolinus@jabber.linux.it icq:62837984 msn:koolinuz@hotmail.com * Y!: koolinus * skype: nicola.losito

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C. Brouerius van Nidek
Carlos E. R.
Constant Brouerius van nidek
James Wright
John Meyer
nicola .:kOoLiNuS:. losito
Patrick Shanahan