mutt and gmail

[John Hawkinson]

Jude, I find your email puzzling. I don't believe there've been any recent outages of Gmail's IMAP service, i.e. nothing that would prevent mutt from connecting to Gmail and retrieving mail. Can you be more clear about what problem are trying to address, and how you might solve it?

There was a recent outage Gmail outage that prevented Gmail's SMTP inbound servers from receiving email to Gmail users, and cause that mail to bounce. See, variously:
  Hacker News	https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25436062
  Google's app dashboard https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=1&iid=a8b67908fadee664c68c240ff9f529ab
  Google's alleged "incident report" http://www.google.com/appsstatus/ir/4et50yp2ckm8otv.pdf (linked from the dashboard).

You can also monitor Google's appstatus dashboard via RSS at https://www.google.com/appsstatus/rss/en

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John Hawkinson

Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> wrote on Sun, 20 Dec 2020
at 16:49:57 EST in <alpine.NEB.2.23.451.2012201641020.19017 at panix1.panix.com>:

> Given gmail isn't always available these days for whatever reason(s) I'm
> wondering how best to regularly monitor gmail servers so users would know
> if the servers are alive when they use mutt to connect and do mail
> transactions.  Probably putting something into mutt would not be feasible.
> I don't know if any other light-weight command line solutions for this
> type of monitoring are already available since I've had no occasion to do
> it yet.
> 
> When people state they cannot recieve email with a stable version of mutt
> and it not being all that long ago gmail was down and that got on the news
> an ability to monitor services would seem to be useful.  The gmail
> monitoring should only be attempted once it's established a network
> connection exists since if you haven't got a network certainly no service
> on the network will work.