[Lvlug] Anybody else having trouble with gmail via pop?

[Greg Martin]

Randy Kramer wrote:

>Thanks for the response!  I thought I should report back on the "solution", 
>but I'm not sure I have much useful to report.
>
>I reinstalled Mandrake (10) (leaving my old /home intact) and things have 
>worked last evening/night and this morning.  traceroute still gives similar 
>results, although the traceroute on pop.gmail.com shows three more hops 
>before becoming all asterisks:
>
>[root at system12 Downloads]# traceroute pop.gmail.com
>traceroute: Warning: pop.gmail.com has multiple addresses; using 
>64.233.171.111
>...
> 7  ge-10-1.hsa1.Atlanta1.Level3.net (64.159.3.2)  227.184 ms  207.276 ms  
>202.532 ms
> 8  unknown.Level3.net (63.211.121.30)  284.459 ms  275.438 ms  282.937 ms
> 9  216.239.46.146 (216.239.46.146)  204.096 ms  207.649 ms  206.250 ms
>10  216.239.46.78 (216.239.46.78)  215.724 ms  209.133 ms  201.937 ms
>11  * * *
>...
>
> traceroute -p 995 pop.gmail.com still looks the same (asterisks starting at 
>the 8th hop).
>
>So, (1) why did I reinstall Mandrake, and (2) was that the real resolution?
>
>(1) Not sure--when I was using the system with verizon broadband, I was using 
>DHCP, when I came back to fast.net I had to use a fixed/manual setup (on a 
>private lan address (192.168.0.12, with gateway 192.168.0.10))--I thought 
>maybe something had gotten "stuck" to some bad value.  Also, I've had strange 
>problems before with kmail--can't recall exactly, something like after a 
>reinstall it looked for my mail in something like ~/Mail instead of ~/mail 
>and didn't find my local folders.
>
>(2) No idea--it works now, fast.net swore they hadn't changed anything (even 
>though we had a different email problem on my wife's Windows machine, in 
>which case we (my son)  disabled file and print sharing and the ability to 
>send email was restored.
>
>Anyway... it's working for now.
>
>thanks,
>Randy Kramer
>
>On Wednesday 20 April 2005 12:07 pm, you wrote:
>  
>
>>On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:09:39AM -0400, Randy Kramer wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Today I have not been able to get my gmail via pop (which is what I
>>>normally do).
>>>      
>>>
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>
Geez - reinstall the OS?  Sounds like a windows solution.  Are you sure 
you weren't just having a DSL problem?

\\Greg