Re: [gentoo-user] Problems accessing gmail with pop3 using kmail/kontact

On Friday 22 June 2007, Mick wrote:
> On Friday 22 June 2007 14:34, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Hi all,

[snip]
> > I use it within kontact, and every second day or so I can no longer
> > access my gmail account using pop3. 'killall kio_pop3' tends to fix
> > this so I assume it's some kind of locking issue. But I also have
> > two other pop3 accounts where this does not happen, and I can
> > invariably get to gmail in a browser when kmail locks up.

[snip]

> I am using the stable kontact/kmail packages and do not have any
> problem accessing my gmail account. Assuming that yours is correctly
> configured and there are no network problems, I can only point the
> finger at the testing versions you are running.

<sigh> I was afraid of that...

> BTW, a couple of weeks ago I *did* have problems accessing Gmail,
> which I attributed to the gmail pop server. It only lasted a couple
> of days and since then popping Gmail has been trouble free.

Yes, I ran into that too, and the difference was that I couldn;t get there in a browser either, but i'ts different this time

> It may be worth trying openssl to connect to Gmail on the command
> line to troubleshoot it, if you are still getting failures to
> connect.

Good, idea, I hadn't though of that.
Thanks

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