Starting about a year or more ago, I've had increasing intermittent
problems with accessing my gmail account with gnus via POP3
(https://osdir.com/ml/info-gnus-english-gnu/2014-07/msg00049.html).
Does anyone have any suggestions?
--
My intent:
Read mail via POP3 into gnus using a secure protocol, leaving
downloaded mail on gmail, too.
Send email via SMTP on gmail using a secure protocol.
--
My problem: when I'm downloading, perhaps 90% of the time, I get this
message in the mini-buffer:
,
| Mail source (pop :server pop.gmail.com :port 995 :user @gmail.com
:password :stream ssl) error (POP SSL connexion failed). Continue?
(yes or no)
`
If I don't get that message, it works just fine.
When I'm sending a message, about 90% of the time, I get
,
| POP SSL connexion failed
`
If I don't get that message, it works just fine. It's inconsistent:
sometimes it works fine for quite a while, and sometimes it doesn't for
quite a while.
--
My local POP3 configuration:
,[ set via customize in the Mail Source group ]
| mail-sources's value is
| ((pop :server "pop.gmail.com" :port 995 :user "@gmail.com" :password
"***" :stream ssl))
`
That seems consistent with
https://support.google.com/mail/troubleshooter/6323470?hl=en_topic=3397961#ts=1665162
and http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusGmail#toc7.
My gmail POP3 configuration:
- Forwarding: Disable forwarding
- Status: POP is enabled for all mail
- When messages are accessed with POP mark Gmail's copy as read
- Status: IMAP is disabled.
- Access for less secure apps (I've tried 'Turn off' and 'Turn on', to
no avail)
The Pop3 group has more set:
,
| '(pop3-leave-mail-on-server nil)
`
I don't want that, as I said, but that doesn't seem to create a problem,
since I've told gmail simply to mark downloaded email as read, not to
delete it.
I also can't imagine that this affects my ability to download email, so
I'm leaving it alone for now. It sounds like I want to change that
later, though, just for safety.
My customize section of my .emacs has
,
| '(read-mail-command (quote gnus))
`
--
My local SMTP configuration:
,[ in my .gnus ]
| (require 'tls)
`
,[ in the customize section of my .emacs ]
| '(smtpmail-auth-credentials (quote (("smtp.gmail.com" 587
"@gmail.com" ""
| '(smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com")
| '(smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com")
| '(smtpmail-smtp-service 587)
| '(smtpmail-starttls-credentials (quote (("smtp.gmail.com" 587 "" ""
`
That seems consistent with http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusGmail.
--
My environment:
,
| Debian 7.9
| Gnus v5.13
| GNU Emacs 23.4.1
`
Does anyone see anything I'm missing?
Thanks,
Bill
--
Bill Harris
___
info-gnus-english mailing list
info-gnus-english@gnu.org
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english