google itself uses strange enough rss that snownews can't parse it. I read a message a little earlier today that a contact could not get gmail with mutt. I'll try that url using news-ticker since it may have better luck. On Sun, 20 Dec 2020, John Hawkinson wrote:
> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 17:20:33 > From: John Hawkinson <jh...@alum.mit.edu> > To: Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> > Cc: mutt-users@mutt.org > Subject: Re: mutt and gmail > > Jude, I find your email puzzling. I don't believe there've been any recent > outages of Gmail's IMAP service, i.e. nothing that would prevent mutt from > connecting to Gmail and retrieving mail. Can you be more clear about what > problem are trying to address, and how you might solve it? > > There was a recent outage Gmail outage that prevented Gmail's SMTP inbound > servers from receiving email to Gmail users, and cause that mail to bounce. > See, variously: > Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25436062 > Google's app dashboard > https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=1&iid=a8b67908fadee664c68c240ff9f529ab > Google's alleged "incident report" > http://www.google.com/appsstatus/ir/4et50yp2ckm8otv.pdf (linked from the > dashboard). > > You can also monitor Google's appstatus dashboard via RSS at > https://www.google.com/appsstatus/rss/en > > -- > jh...@alum.mit.edu > John Hawkinson > > Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> wrote on Sun, 20 Dec 2020 > at 16:49:57 EST in <alpine.neb.2.23.451.2012201641020.19...@panix1.panix.com>: > > > Given gmail isn't always available these days for whatever reason(s) I'm > > wondering how best to regularly monitor gmail servers so users would know > > if the servers are alive when they use mutt to connect and do mail > > transactions. Probably putting something into mutt would not be feasible. > > I don't know if any other light-weight command line solutions for this > > type of monitoring are already available since I've had no occasion to do > > it yet. > > > > When people state they cannot recieve email with a stable version of mutt > > and it not being all that long ago gmail was down and that got on the news > > an ability to monitor services would seem to be useful. The gmail > > monitoring should only be attempted once it's established a network > > connection exists since if you haven't got a network certainly no service > > on the network will work. > --
