Guerri Stevens
June 19th, 2009, 10:25 AM
I am having intermittent trouble today sending Email from my tapcis.com account (hosted by Google). Everything was fine last night and I changed nothing. I am using Thunderbird as my Email client.
This morning, I composed a message as usual, and tried to send it. First I got a message that I should enter a password. This seemed odd because I have the password memorized in Tbird. So I cancelled and checked my settings, and sure enough the password was there.
Then I tried again, and I manually entered the password when requested, and got a message that it was unable to connect to the server smtp.gmail.com (sorry, I know I should have written down the exact message, but I didn't).
So I asked my husband if he was having any trouble, thinking that perhaps our Internet provider had some kind of problem. While he was checking on that, I tried to send my message again and it worked just fine! Aha, I said, a temporary glitch. Premature happiness, as it turns out.
I composed a few other messages, telling Tbird to send later. When I was done, I told Tbird to send everything. Same error. I decided to do a few other things, then try again. This time when it complained about the password, I entered it. The first message was sent, and so were the others, without any further password requests (I expected one for each outgoing message).
Is there a known problem with Gmail today? Something is wrong because Tbird should not be asking for a password in the first place, it should be using the stored password. Do I perhaps need to change the outgoing server?
This morning, I composed a message as usual, and tried to send it. First I got a message that I should enter a password. This seemed odd because I have the password memorized in Tbird. So I cancelled and checked my settings, and sure enough the password was there.
Then I tried again, and I manually entered the password when requested, and got a message that it was unable to connect to the server smtp.gmail.com (sorry, I know I should have written down the exact message, but I didn't).
So I asked my husband if he was having any trouble, thinking that perhaps our Internet provider had some kind of problem. While he was checking on that, I tried to send my message again and it worked just fine! Aha, I said, a temporary glitch. Premature happiness, as it turns out.
I composed a few other messages, telling Tbird to send later. When I was done, I told Tbird to send everything. Same error. I decided to do a few other things, then try again. This time when it complained about the password, I entered it. The first message was sent, and so were the others, without any further password requests (I expected one for each outgoing message).
Is there a known problem with Gmail today? Something is wrong because Tbird should not be asking for a password in the first place, it should be using the stored password. Do I perhaps need to change the outgoing server?