evolution isn' t able to use GMAIL, no POP3 access

Thank you for your comments. This does not appear to be a bug report and we are closing it. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise your question in the support tracker. https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu

Hello:

This link can help you out in setting up evolution with gmail..

http://tuxicity.wordpress.com/2007/03/08/howto-set-up-gmail-in-evolution-gnomes-mail-client-and-organizer/

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

I have seen this problem suddenly cropping up all over the net - (March 08)
So I would suggest that it may in fact be a setting change by the isps (port security?), or at gmail's servers. It is therefore not strictly a bug - but definately stops us collecting mail - so is a show stopper!

The odd thing is we can still SEND mail, so smtp is ok.
But pop is no good.
I can access webmail no problem, so not a password issue.
Must have something to do with the way the username and or password is stored or transmitted for the pop authentication.

Another poster tried Thunderbird but go the same symptom!
Will try reinstall of EVO.

LAstly, I must say that the issue started when Ubuntu had to be hard powered off after hanging.. so maybe a corruption of config files...
I will try recreateing the user accounts in evo first. Then reinstall. Then try another client.

I have a new question - how is this assigned to me? I never asked this question explicitly; I don't use evolution or gmail. I signed up to launchpad yesterday to report some automatically generated bug reports in the Ubuntu beta, but I wasn't aware that evolution was one of the apps that crashed (It was trackerd and gksu/synaptic as far as I knew). Sorry about bothering everyone, but I'm a little baffled by how I seem to have entered this question without meaning to. Is my distribution now somehow wired up to auto-file bug reports/questions?

Neil, I am a noob on this forum - so not aware of the procedures...
I was originally:
This question was originally filed as bug #207117. - but has no name against it - yours is somehow the first that appears against the post :) ?
Bruce

Installed Thunderbird and had no issues with the pop authentication!

follow all instructions carefully. works perfect!

I'm having the old problem, i.e. can't receive hotmail, but can send. Checked the config and the server type:
telnet 127.0.0.1 110
answer came back OK with server and everything.
It does strike me that there are people who have no problems and others who do. What's the difference between them?
Live Mail i.s.o. the old Hotmail? A security setting?
Anyway, the 1 thing I haven't been able to check inside Evo, cos' I don't know how, is the port setting. How do I do that?