connecting to mailbox

[jennseay]

In my bottom right corner of my screen, where the time and date are,
the "envelope" has an exclamation point. When I go to it, it says
"cannot connect to your mailbox,service temporarily unavailable". So I
can't see messages that are sopposed to pop up over that box, it used
to, I don't know what happened, or how to fix it.

[Cameron Rodgers]

After a quick look, I came up with this.  I'm not too sure if it will help you or not, but it's worth a shot.

http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Discussion/web/gmail-notifer-patch

2009/1/1 jennseay <jimi...@gmail.com>

[JohnW]

jennseay,

The issue is related to connecting to Gmail via the secure encrypted
https:// method.
The old http://mail.google.com/mail/ was susceptable to being sniffed,
so Google now recommend (they may even use it as default) the
encrypted linkage.
As Cameron has already pointed you at the link for the Gnotify patch
(above) I'll not do so, but it does resolve the problem (and it was
only the Gnotify applet that wasn't able to update!).
But it is already in Google's Known Issues database:-
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=known_issues.cs&ctx=u2ugb_main&issue=107080&bucket=14974

On Jan 1, 10:11 am, "Cameron Rodgers" <kiwicam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> After a quick look, I came up with this.  I'm not too sure if it will help
> you or not, but it's worth a shot.
>

> http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Discussion/web/gmail-notife...
>
> 2009/1/1 jennseay <jimis...@gmail.com>

[James Callender]

Thanks for the help, but I still can't get it to work, when I get to step 5 (to restart) I don't know how to restart it...

[Cameron Rodgers]

There should be an option to exit it.  Select that, then locate it on the start menu (Start > All Programs > Gmail Notifier) or something like that.  Not too sure of the exact path.

[James Callender]

That worked! thank you so much!

[James Callender]

Wait! As soon as I replied to you the exclamation point came back up and it says "checking mail" when I put my curser over it, and the exclamation point is still there! I don't get it!

[JohnW]

Gnotify will automatically set itself up to start when you power up/
start your PC, and that's the best way to make it work.

But it's possible the patch hasn't 'taken' - so now you'll need to
edit the Registry, to make sure the key contains the correct info.
Don't fret about it - it's simple!
Start > Run Then enter "Regedit" in the Command line.
When Regedit has started, use Find and look for HKEY_CURRENT_USER
\Software\Google\Gmail\Flags

When this key is showing make sure that the data part (on the right-
hand side) shows url=https://mail.google.com/mail/
If necessary, use cut and paste if it doesn't.

Close Regedit by Saving.
The restart your PC.

On Jan 2, 5:00 am, "James Callender" <jimis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wait! As soon as I replied to you the exclamation point came back up and it
> says "checking mail" when I put my curser over it, and the exclamation point
> is still there! I don't get it!
>

> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 9:54 PM, James Callender <jimis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > That worked! thank you so much!
>

> > On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Cameron Rodgers <kiwicam...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >>  There should be an option to exit it.  Select that, then locate it on
> >> the start menu (Start > All Programs > Gmail Notifier) or something like
> >> that.  Not too sure of the exact path.
>

> >> *From:* Gmail...@googlegroups.com [mailto:Gmail...@googlegroups.com]
> >> *On Behalf Of *James Callender
> >> *Sent:* Friday, January 02, 2009 12:40 PM
> >> *To:* Gmail...@googlegroups.com
> >> *Subject:* [Gmail-Users] Re: connecting to mailbox

>
> >> Thanks for the help, but I still can't get it to work, when I get to step
> >> 5 (to restart) I don't know how to restart it...
>

> >> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 7:45 AM, JohnW <john.westb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> jennseay,
>
> >> The issue is related to connecting to Gmail via the secure encrypted
> >> https:// method.

> >> The oldhttp://mail.google.com/mail/was susceptable to being sniffed,

> >> so Google now recommend (they may even use it as default) the
> >> encrypted linkage.
> >> As Cameron has already pointed you at the link for the Gnotify patch
> >> (above) I'll not do so, but it does resolve the problem (and it was
> >> only the Gnotify applet that wasn't able to update!).
> >> But it is already in Google's Known Issues database:-
>

> >>http://mail.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=known_issues.cs&ctx...