Gmail and Popfile

[game...@gmail.com]

Has anyone had any luck in getting the great Popfile
(http://popfile.sourceforge.net/) and Gmail to co-operate.

I've just got my ISP to forward all my email to Gmail (well, I did it
myself with Procmail) but have discovered that neither changing popfile
to listen to port 995 (rather than 110) or treating Gmail as a SPA (and
matching the settings there) seems to help.

[Bob Wilkins]

You may want to check the popfile docs for pop3_secure_port and make
the changes.

--
bob

[wei bai]

i couldnt use pop function the day when i got the link, even as the
gmail settings...
but the next day,,,i could easily use it on my email software....

btw, the pop and smtp dont support other charactors well except
eng......

[game...@gmail.com]

Hi,

Thanks for that. I had messed around that far. I think that's nearly
there but not quite.
Set 995 to the pop3_secure_port and pop.gmail.com for the secure
server.

It's a matter of getting the Advanced Settings for the account right in
Outlook then. Ie; do you still require SSL and pick up email from 995.
I think PopFile picks it up from 995 and gives it to Outlook on 110 -
so in Advanced Settings we need to change to 110. However, whether you
leave it on 995 or 110 you get the a "cannot connect to server, check
your port settings" type email. (Not that Outlook is kind enough to let
me cut'n'paste it for you). If you dare to go to 110 and unselect the
SSL then it'll sit and try and log into (but will find) the pop server
without success.

[game...@gmail.com]

I sorted this.

There's an SSL add-on (and Wizard) for popfile. Why do the sourceforge
communities always get so snooty if you ask a question?

Anyway; it's a case of setting that up and changing your username to
include the extra SSL options. This means you need to ticky boxes on
Outlook to use a different username to send mail.

[Starlyth]

The basic setup for POPFile and GMail is as follows (generic as
possible, I use Thunderbird, not Outlook, but the basic information, of
course, is the same)

POPFile v.0.22.2+SSL addon (installation GUI included in POPFile
download as a supplementary zipped file)

server: 127.0.0.1
username: pop.gmail.com:995:username:ssl

If in Thunderbird, the SSL box is to be unchecked. In other words, the
account in the mail client is not to be setup for SSL or any
authentication. The breakdown of the username is obvious for
pop.gmail.com and username, it is the other two that are the catch.
995 is the port used for SSL authentication; ssl is the "code" that
tells POPFile to use SSL.

I don't use POPFile to send email (smtp), so someone else will have to
fill in that particular blank, if the need arises.

Regards,
Ian