OT: gmail replacement (or: gmail pissed me off)

[Shlomo Solomon]

I don't know if this is related (I also use Gmail only with my own domain), 
but around the same time Google started this BUZZ nonsense, my use of Gmail to 
send mail from KMail (using SMTP) became really unreliable. At least half of 
the time, I get an error message from KMail saying: "smtp.gmail.com: Socket 
operation timed out."

This happens on 2 different Mandriva boxes. I've made no changes to any 
settings recently, so I'm quite sure the problem is not on my end.

BTW - like Oleg, I logged in to Gmail and and turned BUZZ of, but this hasn't 
improved SMTP reliability.

On Sunday 14 February 2010, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt <pub at goldshmidt.org> 
wrote:
> > Is it conspicuously absent because I am so paranoid that everything I do
> > not use is turned off already (including chat, etc.)?
> 
> OK, puzzle solved. I only use Gmail with my own domain, not as a
> gmail.com user. I scratched my head and logged on with my
> long-forgotten gmail.com username (which I had to create just to set
> my domain up), and voila - Buzz appeared (and was immediately turned
> off).
> 
> Apparently, if you use your own domain they don't molest you.
> 
> Sorry for the noise.
> 


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