[sclug] sclug Digest, Vol 58, Issue 7

[n.a.haughton@bigfoot.com]

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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: John Stumbles <sclug at yaph.org.uk>
> To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
> Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:54:13 +0100
> Subject: Re: [sclug] Thunderbird connnection problems
> n.a.haughton at bigfoot.com wrote:
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> How about trying getmail? There's a howto (or a how I do it) on my wibble
> (link in sig) - though I don't use ssl so you'd have to rtfm how to set that
> up. You can tell it not to delete mail from the server, but it should show
> if your server & connection are working.
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Well I tried, but that got no results either. Here is my getmailrc and the
terminal output..

[retriever]
type = SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever
server = googlemail.com
username = <myusername>
port = 993
password = <mypassword>
[destination]
type = Maildir
path = ~/maildir/

Here is the terminal output:

neil at study:~$ getmail
getmail version 4.6.5
Copyright (C) 1998-2006 Charles Cazabon.  Licensed under the GNU GPL version
2.
SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever:<myusernamehere>@googlemail.com:993:

That's it.

It's almost as if something is blocking the connection. Is it possible that
my router is blocking some port (993, for example)?

Neil