On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 18:34:25 -0700 walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > Google has just introduced a 120-second delay before allowing login to > their email servers. Just in the last day or two, literally.
Yet again, I think(hope/pray) I've solved this mysterious change in behavior: For years I've configured my email clients (thunderbird, and recently claws-mail) to use "imap.gmail.com" as the mail server. Finally I 'googled' (using DuckDuckGo) for how to configure imap access to gmail servers, and discovered that google is now recommending the server name "imap.googlemail.com" instead of "imap.gmail.com". I made the appropriate changes in configuration for claws-mail and thunderbird, and I think(hope/pray) that the problem is fixed. In my preliminary trials it seems to be fixed. The mail server did ask me (once) after changing the server name, to reconfirm my password, so something did really change. I'm not making this stuff up, I promise.
