Re: icedove: failed to connect server XXX@gmail.com
On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 23:38:56 +0100
Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> PS I have been trying to help mudongliang, unsuccessfully. But thereby hangs
> another thread. Please someone else, his question has still not been
> answered. Are all attempts to answer it being spam-checked out of
> existence??
>
[I trust this will appear in the desired thread; I changed the subject back....]
A few things I can think of (which generally reflect your suggestions):
- username changed in settings or at gmail
- password changed in settings or at gmail
- port changed in settings or at gmail (between encrypted and non-encrypted, for example)
- DNS problems
- SSL versus startTLS
- change between IMAP and POP3
- firewall blockage (but not *too* likely, since other servers can be accessed)
- encryption schemes that are no longer valid (like SSL2 or SSL3 but, again, not *too* likely*)
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P.S. Related to another thread (about email programs), another shortcoming of Claws Mail is that there's no way to see/edit *all* a reply's headers; otherwise, I would've adjusted this message's Message-id header to match that of the O.P.'s message and make this reply appear in the right place in the thread. I don't have the original message to reply to.
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