[Outages-discussion] Gmail IMAP/POP3?

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 12:23:50PM -0500, Chris Adams via Outages-discussion wrote:
> Once upon a time, Eric Germann <ekgermann at semperen.com> said:
> > Did something change recently with Gmail?
> > 
> > [ec2-user at assp01 ec2-user]# telnet -4 pop.gmail.com pop3
> > Trying 142.251.4.109...
> > telnet: connect to address 142.251.4.109: Connection timed out
> > Trying 142.251.4.108...
> > telnet: connect to address 142.251.4.108: Connection timed out
> > 
> > [ec2-user at assp01 ec2-user]# telnet -4 imap.gmail.com imap
> > Trying 142.250.111.108...
> 
> Haven't they required the SSL-wrapped ports for a while now?  Those work
> fine for me.

That's correct.

For Eric's benefit: you want pop3s (995) or imaps (993), which are the
pure TLS/SSL versions of classic pop (110) and imap (143).

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7104828 (POP)
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229 (IMAP)

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