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So I followed all the damn instructions to configure OE for POP access to Gmail, and pop.gmail.com isn't responding. Is that their problem or mine? Either way, this sucks.
A time-out occurred while communicating with the server. Account: 'Gmail of Polter-Cow', Server: 'pop.gmail.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes, Error Number: 0x800CCC19
I'm getting pings from pop.gmail.com, implying that the server is up.
You enabled it at both ends, right? In OE and in the gmail client? There's a setting of some sort you have to set in the web client.
You enabled it at both ends, right? In OE and in the gmail client? There's a setting of some sort you have to set in the web client.
Yeah, I enabled POP in gmail for all mail ever. Gah.
Can't send, either.
First mistake is using OE....
Hmm, try turning off SSL for now.
Yeah, I tried that. It didn't work.
I set up POP with my Comcast e-mail, though, and that seemed to work fine. If I can't get stupid Gmail to work, I guess I can use that for a while. As long as I set up mail forwarding, everything should get bounced around to me eventually.
You could try Thunderbird. It works for me to access my gmail pop mail.
Waitaminute, your message above says it rejected account "Gmail of Polter-cow".
Do you have that whole phrase in the account name being sent to the server?
That's just the name of the server in OE. The server name is pop.gmail.com. I know it's trying the right server because I changed it to mail.gmail.com and it didn't even find it. It just keeps timing out on pop.gmail.com.
I'm not talking about the server name. I'm talking about the account name under the server name in OE under Tools->Accounts->Mail->Properties->Servers
and further under
Tools->Accounts->Mail->Properties->Servers->Settings.
I'm talking about the account name under the server name in OE under Tools->Accounts->Mail->Properties->Servers
Well, yeah, that's what the Account Name is called, but I don't see what that has to do with anything. I called the Comcast one "Cmail of Polter-Cow," and it worked fine. Is Gmail specifically finicky about that, or something? It has to be called "pop.gmail.com" or something?
Is there a simple way to monitor what is (or isn't) happening on a COMM port? (Without one of those hardware serial port analyzers.) We have two computers connected to a UPS via serial cables, and it seems no communication is happening. Can you get Hyperterminal (or similar) to just echo everything that passes through the port?
This is on Win2K machines....