Re: Anyone else having password failures at pop.gmail.com?
On Thursday 27 August 2015 09:22:26 Joel Rees wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com>
wrote:
> > On Wednesday 19 August 2015 18:53:33 Joel Rees wrote:
> >> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> >> > They apparently did something just before 15:00 local time
> >> > (GMT-4=EDT today, as both mailfilter and fetchmail are now
> >> > reporting a password authorization failure.
> >> >
> >> > Thats two separate config files, neither of which has been into
> >> > an editor to even change the size of the top dot of an i in about
> >> > 2 years.
> >> >
> >> > So, is it me, or has gmail changed the protocol somehow?
> >>
> >> Any chance it's the old problem with Google's chain to a root CA?
> >>
> >> Or that some trigger got hit and Google wants you to log in via the
> >> web to prove that your mail hasn't been taken over by a spambot?
> >>
> >> These are issues I regularly have with Google.
> >
> > I couldn't log into it using the shentel alias from a browser
> > either.
>
> If I hadn't lost track of this thread, I could have suggested (before
> shentel took back their mail support) that you log in to google's
> webmail with the shentel address and nose around the help pages and
> such.
>
If I didn't pull all that with fetchmail, I might have. But by the time
they started rejecting the mailfilter and fetchmail accesses, it was too
late. I had no advanced warning.
> http://www.gmail.com
>
> is where I log in for the webmail interface.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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