Re: IMAP Issues (error / speed)
DNS issues indeed. My router was trying some black magic with DNS
relaying, so I turned it off and explicitly added my DNS servers.
Works like a charm now. Thanks !
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Dylan Stamat <dylanstamat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey Rocco, thanks for the response. Here is the output for both
> imap and smtp:
>
> host -v smtp.gmail.com
> =========================================
> Trying "smtp.gmail.com"
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 51892
> ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;smtp.gmail.com. IN A
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> smtp.gmail.com. 10000 IN A 209.85.201.109
>
> Received 48 bytes from 10.1.1.1#53 in 2 ms
> Trying "smtp.gmail.com"
> ;; Warning: Message parser reports malformed message packet.
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 63148
> ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;smtp.gmail.com. IN AAAA
>
> Received 32 bytes from 10.1.1.1#53 in 2 ms
> Trying "smtp.gmail.com"
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> =========================================
>
>
> host -v imap.gmail.com
> =========================================
> Trying "imap.gmail.com"
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 9203
> ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;imap.gmail.com. IN A
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> imap.gmail.com. 10000 IN A 209.85.201.109
>
> Received 48 bytes from 10.1.1.1#53 in 2 ms
> Trying "imap.gmail.com"
> ;; Warning: Message parser reports malformed message packet.
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40239
> ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;imap.gmail.com. IN AAAA
>
> Received 32 bytes from 10.1.1.1#53 in 2 ms
> Trying "imap.gmail.com"
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> =========================================
>
> The odd part is that imap will connect eventually and I can use mutt,
> but smtp will never resolve. Assuming imap timeout is shorter ?
> Regardless, something is not right, as "connection timed out" is
> probably not ideal ;)
>
> Any suggestions are welcome,
> Thanks !
> ==
> Dylan
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Rocco Rutte <pdmef@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> * Dylan Stamat wrote:
>>
>>
>> > I'm on a fresh install of OSX (Leopard), and did a macport install of
>> > mutt-devel,
>> > (see bottom of email for config opts). I had no issues on my OpenBSD
>> machine,
>> > but in moving my .muttrc over to this new machine, there are the
>> > following problems.
>> >
>>
>>
>> > 1) When sending an email, it hangs for a while (probably until
>> connect_timeout
>> > seconds), then gives me the following error (obviously, gmail as the
>> > smtp server):"Could not connect to gmail.com (Can't assign requested
>> > address)."
>> >
>>
>> This is likely for the same reason as 2).
>>
>>
>>
>> > 2) When starting mutt, it sits on "Looking up imap.gmail.com..." for
>> about 20
>> > seconds before taking me into my default inbox. I've tried toggling
>> > "imap_check_subscribed" and "imap_list_subscribed", but to no avail.
>> >
>>
>> The "Looking up..." message says that mutt is waiting for the OS to return
>> the IP address for the given host. I guess in your case you have some DNS
>> problems unrelated to mutt.
>>
>> How long does 'host imap.google.com' on the command line take on OS X for
>> you?
>>
>> Rocco
>>
>