On 9/15/13, Zenaan Harkness <z...@freedbms.net> wrote: > On 9/15/13, Randy Kramer <rhkra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ... email intermittent on 36-48hr boundary ... > >> update is to say that I've switched back to a static IP address on the >> computer in question (instead of a dynamic address) and the problem is >> "under control". >> >> By that, I mean that, it seems the problem still occurs (I'm sending a >> test >> email every 10 minutes and thus can recognize when a failure occurs), but >> it >> seems that, with a static address, the problem sort of "self >> corrects"--that > > Your problem is indeed intriguing. > > I in recent days discovered something possibly of note for you, but > probably not - I've been using mail.google.com in firefox, and would > swap between two different computers in my house, which would work, > then one day it stopped working, as in, I'd use email on one computer, > then email would not work on the other computer. I was proxying > through a vpn though, to another computer on a different external IP > address, and after some time I figured this out. It seems google uses > some server cookie binding client login to ip address (which in > hindsight is a sensible security choice), and that if I had have > logged out of gmail on first IP address/pc, then logged in on > laternate ip/pc, then google probably would have been ok with that.
And the obvious possibility I had intended to but forgot to suggest - - were you checking your external (public facing) ip address dynamically assigned to you by the isp? As in, perhaps it was DHCP with a 36 hour timeout, and instead of existing address being renewed a new address instead was being assigned (a bit dodgy but possible), and that for some reason your login on google on the google side had a problem with this. You see Google makes some assumptions, and may be prefers people use web gmail over pop/imap. You said other google things were not working, so perhaps we are homing in on the culprit of your problem. Good luck Zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caosgnsqshcka2pfj7wusvxcjs-fvszgqjzrcyadu8pltror...@mail.gmail.com
