I had similar problems and only got it to work after changing the password. AFAIK this is only possible from off-campus, blocked ports on-campus and can't go through proxy server. Cheers

hey, it works ;) the problem was the synchronisation of password. I changed it, went to the UnlockChapta Link. And that's it! Big Thanx to everyone for your support.

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* 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. *>* *>*

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