Quote: Originally Posted by
suriya06 
Hi to all,
I am new to vista forums. I configured gmail account in windows mail, but i'm not send or recieving mails. I'm getting the following error.
Unable to send or receive messages for the GMAIL account. The connection to the server has failed.
Server: 'pop.gmail.com'
Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x800CCC0E
Protocol: POP3
Port: 110
Secure(SSL): Yes
Socket Error: 10060
I checked all my settings, all are correct. i enabled pop in gmail account also. changed my mail incoming address as pop.gmail.com, outgoing address as smtp.gmail.com. Incoming port number as 995 and outgoing port no as 465. enable the My server requires authentication check box.I'm using latest version of windows mail. I turned off my windows firewall and my antivirus firewall also. In my antivirus i dont have a email scanning option.
Pls tell me what should be the problem, how to rectify that.
Thanks in Advance.
Thanks and Regards,
R. Suriya Prakash.
Hey Suriya,
You are on the right track here, except one thing. POP will only work for gmail when you are logged on to gmail (or any other google service with the same account) in your browser. In other words, even if you have it configured correctly, Windows Mail cannot connect with gmail without explorer (or firefox, or chrome, or whatever) being concurrently connected to google. If you look hard enough, this is in the gmail documentation, but it took me years to find it.
However, I will tell you my final workaround here. Go back to your gmail account, under 'Settings', 'Forwarding POP/IMAP', turn off POP and turn on IMAP. You will have to remove and recreate as new your account in Windows Mail, follow the instructions on the gmail site. (Note the incoming mail protocol & address change, and the port. Also note that both incoming and outgoing use SSL).
Once you do this, you will gain a lot of functionality, and you lose the simulanteous connection requirement. You will be able to access all of the gmail folders that previously you had to use explorer to see (All Mail, Spam, Trash, etc.). And most of all, you will be able to send mail!
