Gmail POP is broken - again
What it says, really. Has been broken now for two days: the mail arrives at the webmail interface, but POP downloading doesn’t happen. Same problem as I wrote about previously.
Annoying thing is that there’s no status page one can go to where one might learn why that is.
Meanwhile, can anyone explain what this thing is from the update notes for Mac OSX 10.4.8?
Windows File Sharing now generates only one process, avoiding an issue that could cause a Mac OS X computer to become unresponsive if it won a master browser election.
WTHI a master browser election??
- These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
- Gmail is broken. Or its POP forwarding is. (16 August 2006; score: 78.11%)
- Gmail invites - I got them if you want them (23 March 2005; score: 61.75%)
- Gmail praise: cool front page, excellent spam filtering (17 April 2005; score: 56.87%)
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October 3rd, 2006 at 1:45 pm
You mean at some point in your life you actually managed to get Gmail POP to work in Mail? You’re doing a damned sight better than me. No end of web tutorials could wrestle Gmail emails into my Mail application.
October 3rd, 2006 at 3:01 pm
The key is (or was) - if you’re using Apple’s Mail - to click on the “Advanced” tab when you’re setting it up and put 995 in the “port” setting, and click on “use SSL” and authentication: password.
Then again, maybe you did all those things, but you got Gmail during one of its not-POPping today days.
October 3rd, 2006 at 3:17 pm
Gmail POP was working fine for me yesterday with Thunderbird (in Linux).
October 3rd, 2006 at 4:19 pm
It’s been working fine for me all day.
At home connected via ntlworld, I never have any problems. At work, however, connected via JANET (the academic network) there are times when it seems to get stuck attempting to download the messages but it usually rights itself within a short-ish period. The one continuing problem I do have at work is that messages are often downloaded but not deleted from the POP server so I have to remember to manually delete them otherwise I end up with another copy when I get home.
October 3rd, 2006 at 4:31 pm
Master Browser Election: (probably gross oversimplification and wrong in parts, but close enough)
On a Windows network each machine keeps a list of names and address for every other computer (possibly limited to the same workgroup), however one of the computers is chosen and its list is considered official (the Master Browser). The method of choosing the Master Browser is called an election. In most peer to peer networks, the choice may as well be random (I think the first computer to be switched on wins) but when you have Windows Servers or Samba they can be set so that they are more likely to win and can also be set to force a new election when they join the network (this otherwise doesn’t always happen).
As I say, this is probably wrong in parts, but close enough to the truth that it is a useful summary.