The time is 12:10 on July 31st, 2008 (7/31/08) and it looks like gmail’s SMTP server may be having some problems, when I try to send a mail in thunderbird using gmail’s SMTP server it goes to 33% hangs for a bit and then gives me an error message that says the email can’t be sent. I’ve looked, but can’t find much info about this problem, so I would like to pose a question to my readers…
Is there anyone else out there experiencing these problems too??? (please comment if you are)
UPDATE: It was an encoding problem on my side, all seems to be find with gmail.
August 12th, 2008 on 9:44 am
I have been experiencing problems with Gmail SMTP the past few days (8/9-12). Today it’s hanging on me, the other days it told me ‘server does not support authentication’.
August 12th, 2008 on 9:50 am
Ok, so I may have found a work-around. Apparently, Google’s certificate expired, which I found out about at http://technorati.com/posts/GTAMPmdrbfjuRKfOcv%2FqYDyCBjpO2gVlyvKLHboGoOk%3D.
However, that certificate was only for port 465, but the port 587 is also supported for SMTP. Using the port 587 I am able to use Gmail SMTP again. Good Luck!
October 16th, 2008 on 12:53 am
Oct 16th – problems abound…