Good evening, I am having a very interesting Gmail problem. I have a personal Gmail account, and now I have a school Gmail account. The school tells me I'm able to pull down the Gmail from the school via IMAP. But I'm beginning to think that the two accounts cannot coexist on the same machine. Because even after setting it all up, there is no good way to get all of the security that the school account needs properly set up for there not to be any problems.
The symptoms I've been experiencing are, every time I start mail I get a warning message saying that male cannot connect to the school's mail server, note it is one of these mail servers where it is [email protected]" replacing the.com with the name of my school.edu. Period and in the instructions for the set up, I'm advised to keep incoming security on and outgoing security on is well. On the incoming side of this the proper port to use years port 993.. And the outgoing port, if I'm able to set it using voice over this is, 587 or 460. So meanwhile the first Gmail account is having absolutely no problems. I would be happy to send someone off list the setup instructions that has been provided to me. They appear to be pretty generic though, I guess what I'm trying to get at here is what in my doing wrong? Because after I set it all up, I can not receive mail and I certainly can't send any email either. Period I think some of the problem doesn't around the fact the school uses its own certificate. And this of course has my MacBook seeing red, and a matter of speaking. So the last time when I tried to settle this up I went to the box that says show the certificate, then when I got inside of that box I checked trust this certificate. And then clicked okay. After doing this of course I thought that what sold my problems. Unfortunately though no such luck. While taking the time to write all of this, I've decided to just paste the contents of the generic file that the school sent me. To see if this all looks normal to you all. Because many of you have very different types of email configurations, I'm not going to attach this to this list but just pasted into the body of the message.From:< Set up IMAP in other mail clients Google Apps users, please follow the default instructions unless otherwise noted, replacing 'your_domain.com' with your actual domain name. Many clients will automatically configure the appropriate IMAP connection settings for your account, but confirm that the connection settings your client configures are the same as what's listed below. If you're using a client that's not listed above, you can also use the following information to configure your IMAP. If you have problems, contact your mail client's customer support department for further instructions. • Incoming Mail (IMAP) Server - Requires SSL ◦ imap.gmail.com ◦ Port: 993 ◦ Requires SSL:Yes • Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server - Requires TLS ◦ smtp.gmail.com ◦ Port: 465 or 587 ◦ Requires SSL: Yes ◦ Requires authentication: Yes ◦ Use same settings as incoming mail server • Full Name or Display Name: [your name] • Account Name or User Name: your full Gmail address ([email protected]). Google Apps users, please enter [email protected] • Email address: your full Gmail address ([email protected]) Google Apps users, please enter [email protected] • Password: your Gmail password If your client does not support SMTP authentication, you won't be able to send mail through your client using your Gmail address. Also, if you're having trouble sending mail but you've confirmed that encryption is active for SMTP in your mail client, try to configure your SMTP server on a different port: 465 or 587. I certainly hope, that this looks familiar to somebody? Please feel free to post any suggestions?. I certainly felt that this would've been an easy project? But the deeper and getting into it, the harder it seems to be getting? Maybe I'm just plain too tired to attempt to work on this at this hour.. Sincerely, a very tired Maurice. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
