Any success with gmail's POP service?

[Force Flow]

Has anyone been able to successfully use gmail's POP service with an email client?

I'm not sure if it's the way I configured it or if it just doesn't like OE6, but I haven't had any success with it. Anyone here have any success (or failues)?

[Markoman01027]

I havent tried it yet..been using the web mail interface...dont see why not use the web mail interface?

[EzyStvy]

"Have you enabled POP in your Gmail account? We're rolling out POP access to all users in phases. Once it's available to you, a 'Forwarding and POP' tab appears on your 'Settings' page. You need to have this tab in your Gmail account before you can configure POP in your mail client."

[Force Flow]

Yep, did that.

[mikezel]

Im using it with OE6 now with no problems, the only issue i had when setting it up was that i forgot to click "save settings" in the "settings" field of my gmail account once i had changed it to work with pop3.

mike

[Force Flow]

Update: I found out the only that is not working is the ability to *recieve*mail. Sending works fine. This is certainly puzzling.

[kram 2.0]

Make sure that you have SSL turned on. I just configured it to work in Thunderbird which is certainly a big plus about GMail.

kram

[Force Flow]

Yep, have SSL turned on.

[Statica]

Works fine here FF. Go through send settings again, do u get an error? Common issues are forgetting to turn on SMTP authentication and the SMTP send port being wrong. Also if you have an antivirus that does POP3/SMTP checks before sending, try turning it off to see if it helps.

BTW if you do get it to work, the only annoying thing I've noticed is when I use gmail to reply to a mail (the reply turns into a new message in the conversation and gets downloaded on OE).

[WhatsThisBoxFor?]

I set up Thunderbird to do it just fine. It's not the fastest ever, I have found, but at least I can use my normal SMTP server for sending mail (much faster).

[Force Flow]

Using OE6:

The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'gmail account', Server: 'pop.gmail.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E

I even tried google's config tool. I can send, but not recieve, which I found odd.

[kram 2.0]

Originally Posted by Force Flow Using OE6: I even tried google's config tool. I can send, but not recieve, which I found odd.

Open a new "account setting" on OE - another Mail account and reconfigure it there.

kram

[Force Flow]

That was the first thing I did, without success. Then I tried google's config tool and it came back with the exact same settings I put in manually.

*Force is puzzled*

[Force Flow]

It's been fixed. I got an email back from google support and it appears that it was a bug on their end.