On 08/15/2013 03:52 PM, John Andersen wrote:
On 8/15/2013 1:23 PM, Jim Sabatke wrote:
- I get "cannot connect to gmail server" errors. I have about a dozen gmail accounts active in Thunderbird and it doesn't say which account. I do get mail from some of them, but I haven't been able to determine if it is with a certain account. Some accounts do have very large amounts of emails in multiple folders. That's a lot of accounts.
Click on Tools, and select ERROR Console to get a hint of what is going on. Thanks for the detailed reply.
Did that. A huge number of the same errors. Unfortunately they are long and the browser won't let you copy. No error numbers either. They are all "can't open directory" type errors.
First: Don't have all servers check mail upon startup, just the important ones. Second, in each server, go in to settings for that account, click server-settins, click advanced, set number of connections to 1 or 2 max. Done. Also: If using Gmail as Imap (see settings page on the web) Check "use IDLED if the server supports it" (its in advanced). (And you may want to be sure all your Gmail accounts are set to use imap, unless have a reason to prefer pop, in which case set random check for new message intervals so that it doesn't poll all of them at once). Done. Since I access email through multiple systems, IMAP is required. Google has 27 gazillion imap connections open at any given time and has had to start limiting concurrent connections to each gmail account. If you use the default of 5 connections and you access the mail from any other place (phone, tablet, other computer) you can chew thru the allotment pretty quickly.
Also make sure your server name is as Google specifies. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/78892?hl=en Done
Thanks so much. I'll report back after a bit of use to see if this cleared up the problems. Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org