POP3 Gmail with Mail

This sounds like some sort of firewall or network issue. Do you have the firewall enabled on your server? Is it behind some sort of firewall that might be blocking outgoing connections? Try that telnet command from other computers & other network locations to isolate what's preventing the connection.

Hi

Are you certain you're typing it in correctly? Google Mail's pop.gmail.com resolves to 205.85.229.109 and not the address you're quoting. I can telnet to ports 25 & 995 easily enough for both the name and its resolved address.

Tony

I'm pretty sure google is playing DNS games to direct us to nearby servers; for me, pop.gmail.com resolves to 74.125.127.109 from my home network, and 74.125.93.109 from an online ssh server I use (both in the US). I queried a few other DNS servers around the net, and got 74.125.155.109, 72.14.213.109, and 74.125.127.109. Interestingly, I can telnet to port 993 on all of the IPs except 205.85.229.109 (which seems to be allocated to the US Navy???)... I wonder if there's some weird geographic or network-based filtering going on. SuneNJ, what DNS server are you using? Can you telnet to port 993 on any of the IPs I mentioned above?

Hello Gordon

I get the same results as you. Regardless of which DNS Server's I use - Virgin's, Google's, BT, OpenDNS etc. Google's pop.gmail.com (which is an alias for something else) still returns 209.85.227.109 though and not the address you get.

Interestingly OP has not replied yet. I'm not saying this is the case with OP but we've been on these boards long enough to know that sometimes posters are slightly confused regarding the information they provide and the results they're trying to interpret? Hence the reason they post I guess?

We'll have to wait and see what develops. Very foggy and icy where I am. I trust things are OK where you are?

Tony

Hi, Antonio. Sounds like the weather's pretty nasty in the British Isles at the moment. Fairly nice here at the moment (we had a little snow a couple of weeks ago and, being Seattle, panicked). Meantime, I'll join you in waiting for more info from SuneNJ...

Did you ever solve this issue? Something similar abruptly started with my ATT email and no one seems to know how to fix it. I get a triangle by the Apple Mail Inbox and cannot send or receive email unless I login to my webmail account first. All settings have been verified with ATT.