From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I1lNM-0006aA-Sy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:48:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5MED0eC017428; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:13:00 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5ME2g0q002527 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:02:43 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78F2083457 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:14:00 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id EF766GIF-pEM for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:13:55 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12D458341A for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:13:55 +0200 (SAST) Received: from nazgul.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.68]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:04:30 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems accessing gmail with pop3 using kmail/kontact Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:06:09 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200706221534.38577.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <200706221443.08679.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200706221443.08679.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706221606.09978.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Jun 2007 14:04:30.0531 (UTC) FILETIME=[40BA7130:01C7B4D6] X-Archives-Salt: ba1614f2-d0f8-4a5b-b340-5364041f2b99 X-Archives-Hash: a22bc1bbc60959a49bcdad29134cd2b3 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. 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 alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list