Gmail Thunderbird Configuration
Cameron Simpson
cs at zip.com.au
Tue Mar 28 08:50:29 UTC 2006
On 28Mar2006 00:32, Ali Helmy <alihelmy at gmail.com> wrote:
| Well, I did both of these and still, no green light...
| any other suggestions NOT mentioned in the walk-through?
1: Don't top post.
2: Test connectivity directly:
telnet pop.gmail.com 995
That will test two things: DNS resolves pop.gmail.com (telnet
should recite the IP address to you) and test the connection.
Like this:
[~]zoob*> telnet pop.gmail.com 995
Trying 64.233.163.109...
Connected to pop.gmail.com (64.233.163.109).
Escape character is '^]'.
^]
telnet> quit
Connection closed.
If you get the "Connected to ..." message you are ok to reach gmail;
your problems are with your login most likely. If the connection
times out you have a network issue, for example a firewall.
If the "Trying ..." message doesn't occur, DNS is not working.
Cheers,
--
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