Re: Gmail pop3 failing since yesterday

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.getmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tory S. Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Has anyone else experienced issues with gmail pop3 recently? I have one of
> my gmail addresses failing since yesterday, receiving the error from
> getgmail:
[...]
> >Retrieval error: server for
> >SimplePOP3SSLRetriever:recent:<<myaddress>@[[email protected]]:995
> >is broken; offered message GmailId1718e4039279f0fe but failed to provide
> >it.  Please notify the administrator of the server.  Skipping message...

This is a nonfatal error.  getmail is warning you that the server - it can
happen with POP3 or IMAP - included a message in the mailbox contents listing,
but when getmail tried to actually retrieve that message, the server responded
with "no such message with that ID".

The server is broken.  getmail will happily let you continue using it.  If you
can somehow convince the server to stop including the phantom message in its
list of the messages in the mailbox, the error message will go away.  Please
contact your email provider for further help with this.

I'm aware that Gmail is essentially impossible to get support from.  If that
bothers you, perhaps now is a good time to switch to a provider where you're
the customer, rather than the product.

Charles
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