Google IMAP Server

If you are having trouble like me connecting to Google’s newish IMAP server give this a try. Replace the suggested IMAP server, imap.google.com, with gmail-imap.l.google.com. It worked for me. I discovered this while tyring to ping imap.google.com I wasn’t able to but when I went online and saw others screen shots of pinging the server I saw that it automatically changed imap.google.com to gmail-imap.l.google.com. Hopefully Google will figure this all out. Hope this helps some.

UPDATE: it’s imap.gmail.com not imap.google.com, it took months before someone pointed my mistake. Still, kinda funny that some of us fixed it this way before seeing our original mistake.

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