Can someone help me with a Gmail problem?

Published on October 17, 2005 By Stupendous Man In WinCustomize Talk

I have Sysmetrix, Incredimail, DesktopX, a mail notifier widget, and AVG Antivirus. I can't seem to get the widget to read the Gmail account. I keep getting a error regarding contacting the server, or if I try to check the account through Sysmetrix, it disconnects my dial up connection. Can anyone tell me what may be going on? Thanks for any advice you have to offer>

Comments

Bichur

on Oct 18, 2005

which widget?

gfcentral002

on Oct 18, 2005

sometimes for the user name part, you have to have {username}@gmail.com ~ not just {username} - i just use the gmail notifier

Bichur

on Oct 18, 2005

As Island Dog pointed out...have you tried Link ? It worked for me. Once I double checked my password.

Bichur

on Oct 18, 2005

and when i get one (that i have to send to myself to check it) and i click the widget, it opens a tab in FF and logs me right in

Stupendous Man

on Oct 18, 2005

The widget worked well. (Thanks Bichur.) Smooth as silk. Can anyone tell me why I seem to be having probs with sysmetrix or the Omni mail widget?

I don't know if this has any anything to do with the problem, but I do have pop enabled on my account. Should it be set to something else?

Thanks to all for the tips and advice!

Woodbridge

on Oct 18, 2005

POP3 Gmail uses a different port than normal POP3 accounts, nearly all widget and other mini programs are hard coded to use the default port number.

Bichur

on Oct 18, 2005

Yepper. I tried a couple more last night and couldn't get any of those to work on any of my accounts..pop3,msn,gmail = nada

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