On Tuesday 13 September 2016 08:56:47 Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am still trying to figure out why my original reply got so thoroughly > blocked by, I think, Debian's spam filters. So here is the original reply, > with the acronyms replaced by wikipedia links. (For coherent reading, > replace the wikipedia links with teh relevant acronyms) > > On Friday 09 September 2016 16:02:42 mudongliang wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > recently I suddenly failed to update my gmail account in > > icedove. When I tried to get messages from gmail account in icedove, it > > poped up one window : "Failled to connect server x...@gmail.com". There > > is no error for my other email, for example, hotmail, outlook. > > > > How could I solve this problem? > > Look at the > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol > or > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Message_Access_Protocol > server settings. It looks as though something has > gone wrong with the gmail settings. It would help if you were to say which > gmail server you are having problems with, and what settings you are using. > > Lisi
So Debian's spamcheckers were failing, consistently, over a period of time, the acronyms for two types of mail "sending" servers. That strikes me as seriously weird. (I daren't name the servers!!) Lisi