[ale] Google IMAP problems

[Andrew Grieser]

Mike,

I don't think it's a speed issue. When it tries to connect, it simply comes back with an error saying the SSL certificate signature is bad.

Same error on both laptop and N810.

Andrew


On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 05:09:16PM -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Andrew Grieser wrote:
> 
> > Hey all,
> >
> > This morning I wasn't able to check email via imap on my laptop (using 
> > google mail). Thinking this must be a local configuration issue, I 
> > switched to the web interface, which worked fine. However, later I tried 
> > to access google mail via imap from my nokia n810, and I received the 
> > same error that I had gotten before (invalid ssl certificate).
> >
> > So something must have changed today. Has anyone else run into this? 
> > Solutions?
> 
> I cannot immediately help your problem, but I can tell you what I did when 
> their IMAP became too intolerably slow for my usage:  I started running 
> mail on my home network.  This was several months ago, now, I think, but 
> they had run into issue after issue keeping the IMAP service reliable, and 
> after a couple of months of on-and-off responsiveness issues from the 
> server, I had had enough.
> 
> Now, I forward my GAFYD email to my home network, which gets the mail to 
> me.  It may still be slower, but at least I can manage my large mail 
> spools far easier.  I don't notice the slowness in delivery, if there is 
> any, and I don't really care about that (and won't unless delays get to be 
> in the 24+ hour range, regularly).
> 
>  	--- Mike
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