Pine won't open inbox/download messages from gmail -- what am I doing wrong?

[Straitsfan]

I'm learning a little about pine after downloading it. I can't seem to
get it to work, though. It can't open the inbox -- it sits there (as
the little slash mark rotates) but after a while it stops and can't
make the connection, with a message saying that "connection to
gmail.pop....(something) failed, operation timed out.) It also tried
to open the inbox as soon as I opened pine.

I have tried changing the incoming server path a number of different
ways. And I'm not sure exactly how I download mail to pine from
gmail. does just opening the inbox automatically download the
messages?

I've checked to configuration settings and I think I've got everything
correct. Anyone else have these problems?

[Lucas Levrel]

Le 10 juin 2009, Straitsfan a écrit :
> It also tried to open the inbox as soon as I opened pine.

Somehow, you must be using the -i command-line option.

> I have tried changing the incoming server path a number of different
> ways. And I'm not sure exactly how I download mail to pine from
> gmail. does just opening the inbox automatically download the
> messages?

As far as I know, it only downloads headers. Messages are downloaded when
you view them.

> I've checked to configuration settings and I think I've got everything
> correct.

To get help, you should post them.

> Anyone else have these problems?

I've read (here I think) there are bugs in Gmail's IMAP server. Maybe POP
would work better?

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LL