[PLUG] Thunderbird, Ubuntu, IMAP, timeout

Daniel Herrington dherrington at robertmarktech.com
Thu Jul 2 15:07:53 UTC 2009


Joe,

Thanks. Chalk it up to SUE (Stupid User Error). I was hitting the TLS button
instead of SSL.

Dan H.

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Joe Pruett <joey at clean.q7.com> wrote:

> > This is somewhat frustrating. I'm trying to setup Thunderbird to connect
> to
> > gmail to pull down my messages. I'm attempting to do it through IMAP. I
> > followed the instructions from here:
> > http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77662
> >
> > Only problem is I get a timeout to imap.gmail.com. Every time. I can
> ping
> > imap.gmail.com without problems. I can telnet to port 993, It doesn't
> appear
> > to be network issues.
> >
> > I created an imap log file from following these instructions:
> >
> http://www-archive.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html#imap
> >
> > but the file is zero bytes. Wireshark shows the packets going across, and
> > there aren't any errors. It seems there is some kind of problme with
> > thunderbird.
> >
> > Anybody see any problems connecting thunderbird to imap under ubuntu?
> > Anybody have suggestions on where to go next?
>
> here is how to test ssl connections:
>
> create a file with the following contents:
>
> client = yes
> output = /dev/tty
> connect = imap.gmail.com:imaps
>
> then run:
> stunnel NAME-OF-FILE
>
> you should see a standard imap header come back.  if not, then you have
> something interfering with the imaps traffic.  i can get a connection from
> my system using the above technique.
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