[outages] Gmail - POP and IMAP down

[Jeremy Chadwick]

This was brought up previously on the 9th:

https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2012-August/thread.html#4141

Thread name is "IMAP at GMAIL seems down".

...where you even commented in the thread:

https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2012-August/004147.html

The TCP ports you're testing are non-SSL (plaintext) versions of the
IMAP and POP3 protocols.  Try the SSL versions instead (993 and 995
respectively), just like you did in the previous thread.

Seems fine:

$ telnet imap.gmail.com 993
Trying 209.85.225.109...
Connected to gmail-imap.l.google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
^]
telnet> close
Connection closed.

$ telnet pop.gmail.com 995
Trying 209.85.225.109...
Connected to gmail-pop.l.google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
^]
telnet> close
Connection closed.

My advice: stop complaining and instead switch to the SSL versions
already.  Why keep causing yourself grief given the recurring nature of
this problem?

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc at koitsu.org |
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On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 05:49:54PM -0600, Chris Stone wrote:
> Seeing IMAP and POP down and well as web mail timeouts for Gmail:
> 
> 17:48:01-cls at orion:~$ telnet imap.gmail.com 143
> Trying 74.125.45.108...
> ^C
> 17:48:06-cls at orion:~$ telnet pop.gmail.com 110
> Trying 209.85.225.108...
> ^C
> 17:48:18-cls at orion:~$ telnet smtp.gmail.com 25
> Trying 209.85.225.109...
> Connected to smtp.gmail.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 mx.google.com ESMTP dw5sm8678350igc.6
> quit
> 221 2.0.0 closing connection dw5sm8678350igc.6
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> Status page at Google shows all OK - green light. Am I alone?
> 
> 
> 
> Chris
> 

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