Joe, Thanks. Chalk it up to SUE (Stupid User Error). I was hitting the TLS button instead of SSL.
Dan H. On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Joe Pruett <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is somewhat frustrating. I'm trying to setup Thunderbird to connect > to > > gmail to pull down my messages. I'm attempting to do it through IMAP. I > > followed the instructions from here: > > http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77662 > > > > Only problem is I get a timeout to imap.gmail.com. Every time. I can > ping > > imap.gmail.com without problems. I can telnet to port 993, It doesn't > appear > > to be network issues. > > > > I created an imap log file from following these instructions: > > > http://www-archive.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html#imap > > > > but the file is zero bytes. Wireshark shows the packets going across, and > > there aren't any errors. It seems there is some kind of problme with > > thunderbird. > > > > Anybody see any problems connecting thunderbird to imap under ubuntu? > > Anybody have suggestions on where to go next? > > here is how to test ssl connections: > > create a file with the following contents: > > client = yes > output = /dev/tty > connect = imap.gmail.com:imaps > > then run: > stunnel NAME-OF-FILE > > you should see a standard imap header come back. if not, then you have > something interfering with the imaps traffic. i can get a connection from > my system using the above technique. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Daniel B. Herrington Director of Field Services Robert Mark Technologies [email protected] o: 651-769-2574 m: 503-358-8575 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
