300230 - Multiple GMail accounts working incorrectly in Thunderbird 1.0.2

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Daniel Williams]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

I have three GMail accounts set up to be checked by Thunberbird 1.0.2. 
Thunderbird will always check one of the accounts, and download the new mail,
and then look and act like it is checking the other two, without downloading any
mail.  If I click the "Check mail" button, it will give me this error:
http://www.deezil.us/pictures/tbirderror.jpg
multiple times for the two other accounts, and not check the mail for them, but
will still allow me to access the mail on the first account that always seems to
work.  All GMail accounts are configured to have POP3 access, so that is not the
problem.  All accounts are being thrown into the Local Folders, with all of my
other POP3 e-mail accounts.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up several GMail accounts, all to be accessed by Thunderbird.
2. Run the check mail feature.
Actual Results:  
The error described and pictured above.

Expected Results:  
Downloaded all the e-mail from all three of the accounts.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

I have two Gmail accounts set up in Thunderbird and they work just fine. Are you
sure you have Gmail set-up correctly both on Gmail's web interface, and in
Thunderbird?

Comment 2

[Daniel Williams]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I have two Gmail accounts set up in Thunderbird and they work just fine. Are you
> sure you have Gmail set-up correctly both on Gmail's web interface, and in
> Thunderbird?
 I've checked all the settings multiple times.  Do you have yours going to
differnet mailboxes or into the generic "Local Folders" mailbox?

Comment 3

[gmafart]

I have two Gmail accounts and exactly the same problem...

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

This works fine for me. What happens when you use the drop down part of the get
new mail button to just get new mail for the account that doesn't work? Can you
attach a log of such a session, by following these instructions for "protocol" =
POP3 http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html#imap

Comment 5

[gmafart]

It's resolved. I didn't change anything but it finally worked, I can't explain 
how... I just waited.
In fact I met someone who had had the same problem, and it also was resolved 
just by waiting.
(I'm sorry for my bad English. Hope you understood...)

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

Thx for the update. I have a feeling all the weirdness is on the Google end,
though I don't have a clue as to what could be going on. Marking wfm.

Comment 7

[Daniel Williams]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Thx for the update. I have a feeling all the weirdness is on the Google end,
> though I don't have a clue as to what could be going on. Marking wfm.


I still am having the problem.  And, I upgraded to 1.0.5 in hopes that it might 
straighten itself out, but no such luck.  I'll try to get the protocol report 
later, so that someone may be able to figure out what is wrong.  

Comment 8

[Jan Vlug]

I have also problems with gmail pop and thunderbird (both 1.5 beta and 1.0.x).
I have two gmail pop accounts. One to local folders and one in a separate account.
The local folders gmail pop works fine.
The other account always ask the password. It is never accepted. I get first
this message:
Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server pop.gmail.com responded:
Username and password not accepted.
the second time:
Sending of username did not succeed. Mail server pop.gmail.com responded:
malformed command.
This bug is also described here:
http://www.gmailforums.com/lofiversion/index.php/t10053.html

Comment 9

[Jan Vlug]

Attachment: Log of a failing pop3 session.

Added attachment with logging.
Note that I changed the real gmail email addresses with:
[e-mail] (this one is not working) and
[e-mail] (this one works fine)
using: Thunderbird version 1.5 Beta 1 (20050908)

Note: Once, the account has worked correctly. I do not remember if I changed
something that could be cause that the account now does not work any more.

Comment 10

[Jan Vlug]

I created a new profile, the problem still exists.

Comment 11

[Jan Vlug]

The problem disappeared. I did not change anything.
So confirming comment #5.

Comment 12

[David :Bienvenu]

this seems to happen sporadically with gmail, and only gmail, afaik. Marking wfm.