Re: Gmail Thunderbird Configuration

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

On 28Mar2006 00:32, Ali Helmy <alihelmy 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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