On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 11:53 +1200, Ivo Senner wrote:
So this is my first question: I've tried to setup an imap account for my university address at thunderbird. But everytime I trying to connect to imap.gmail.com i get the message "Invalid credentials (Failure)". While searching in google for a solution I can only find the notice to activate IMAP at webmail. That was the first thing i've done. Does anyone know something about this behaviour? or how to setup the imap-account correctly?
The ITS service desk are the best people to ask about this, since some of the details are UoW specific. However most of what you need to know is here: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77662 Things to note: - SSL/port 993 is compulsory, standard IMAP won't work. - Your IMAP username is <user>@students.waikato.ac.nz - Your password should be the same as your UoW one, but may not be sychronised, especially if you've never used https://tools.its.waikato.ac.nz/cgi-bin/changepw so go there and set a new password. - It's easy to lock yourself out by entering the wrong password too many times, so you may need to visit https://www.google.com/a/students.waikato.ac.nz/UnlockCaptcha before trying again. This will confirm the new password you just set works. -- Colin Palmer <colinp(a)waikato.ac.nz> Linux Architect, Systems and Development Team