IMAP is only used for retrieving messages that you receive. SMTP is used to send outbound messages.
-------- Original Message -------- From: Ming Lai <[email protected]> Sent: March 7, 2014 6:12:47 PM CST To: [email protected] Subject: [k-9-mail] Re: Too Many IMAP connections Tim, How did you get the outgoing server IMAP settings to work? I've been trying all afternoon and it just keeps telling me that it can't connect. Would you be willing to share how you got it to work? Thx On Friday, March 7, 2014 6:30:07 PM UTC-5, Tim Lenz wrote: > > I'm new to K-9 Mail, so maybe I'm not using it right... > > I am continually getting errors from Outlook on my PC that there are too > many IMAP connections on my GMail account and I can't retrieve or send mail > from Outlook! This only happens when running the K-9 Mail app on my > phone. No other mail apps that I've tried have resulted in this behavior. > Google searches show that problems like this have existed for a long time > now. Everything I've found indicates either it's fixed or the user has too > many folders set up as "Push" folders, but neither seems to be the case for > me. > > I have Push set up for 3 folders (i.e. I only have Push set up for "1st > Class" folders and only have 3 folders configured as "1st Class" for the > "Folder push class" setting). > > Suggestions? > -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the K-9 Mail Users List. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, email [email protected] To report an issue with K-9 Mail, visit http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/list For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/k-9-mail --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
