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&ref_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