POP mail does not fetch any mail despite new mail on the server

[Kev]

1) Install Alpha 4.1 on a blank partition.
2) Set up the mail daemon with Gmail.
3) Send yourself an e-mail.
4) On webmail I can see that the e-mail sent successfully from Haiku, but even a half hour later, forcing a check from Haiku, it does not download any mail (nor does it give an error.)

This is on a Thinkpad X41.

[axeld]

Is that with POP3 or IMAP?

[humdinger]

I've been seeing that for months. I think I have verified with older alpha images (from a time I used the mail_daemon with GMail (POP3) successfully), that it won't fetch any more mail from GMail either. My other POP3 account at GMX works OK.
I first thought it might be a mis-formatted mail that trips the daemon up, but since it persists after deleting a few mails at the time these issues first cropped up, I think it's some change at Google's end. I could have sworn I filed a ticket for that...
I now use Beam to fetch mail (SMTP to GMail still works with mail_daemon), which isn't really my cup of tea...

[axeld]

I'll look into that in my IMAP branch, too.

[axeld]

I guess the POP3 account is configured to leave the mail on the server?

[humdinger]

Me? Yes. :)

[pplude]

Replicated bug on hrev45186 nightly from 1/21/2013. Gmail will not connect on POP, is enabled on web, and the Mail Daemon is looking for the server at port 995. No mail is being received, and interestingly enough there is no error message. Other POP accounts are working OK.

It does appear to be on Google's end. Using IMAP is a doable workaround, and no other mail service seems to be having this specific issue.

[Kev]

Perhaps it is, but if so, shouldn't there be some sort of error message? Gmail's a common enough provider that I'd think you'd want it working out-of-the-box, or at least telling you that it can't.

[axeld]

You did notice that this bug is still open, did you? :-)

[Kev]

Oh, sorry :-) For some reason the "on Google's end" stuck in my mind more than the open status or the "bug" label. It's just you folks are more helpful than most organizations I come in contact with in life--often I have to go out of my way and prove that something needs attention with the gov't and corps...