Re: Timing out while trying to connect to gmail. Config?

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]> Mon, 25 Feb 2019 18:52:05 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.getmail.user
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On Mon 2019-02-25 08:57:15 -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> I should have also said:
>
>> > > server = imap.gmail.com
>
> You could also try:
>
>     telnet imap.gmail.com 993
>
> If you don't more-or-less immediately see "Connected to <gmail-domain-name>",
> then the problem is that you've been blocked/firewalled off, either at your
> end or at Gmail's.

The simple command-line test i'd expect to work is:

  (echo 'A CAPABILITY' && sleep 2) | gnutls-cli --crlf imap.gmail.com:993

If it works, you should see TLS connection information, followed by:

    - Simple Client Mode:

followed by something like:

    * OK Gimap ready for requests from 38.109.115.130 l1mb154081195vke
    * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA ID XLIST CHILDREN X-GM-EXT-1 XYZZY SASL-IR AUTH=XOAUTH2 AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=PLAIN-CLIENTTOKEN AUTH=OAUTHBEARER AUTH=XOAUTH
    A OK Thats all she wrote! l1mb154081195vke


fwiw, this works fine for me right now, so i suspect the OP saw
something transient (or is experiencing a network blockage)

          --dkg