Any GMail / Google Apps guys here? Just want to ask if there are issues
with imap.google.com
; <<>> DiG 9 <<>> @localhost imap.google.com A
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 24131
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;imap.google.com. IN A
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
google.com. 60 IN SOA ns4.google.com. dns-admin.google.com.
105915603 900 900 1800 60
;; Query time: 16 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Wed Oct 21 02:53:04 2015
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 83
Incoming settings
IMAP server: imap.gmail.com
Port: 993
Security type: SSL (always)
Outgoing settings
SMTP server: smtp.gmail.com
Port: 465
Security type: SSL (always)
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;imap.gmail.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
imap.gmail.com. 299 IN CNAME gmail-imap.l.google.com.
gmail-imap.l.google.com. 299 IN A 64.233.177.109
gmail-imap.l.google.com. 299 IN A 64.233.177.108
<cough>read the fine manual</cough>
$ dig @8.8.8.8 imap.gmail.com
; <<>> DiG 9.10.3 <<>> @8.8.8.8 imap.gmail.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 49149
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;imap.gmail.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
imap.gmail.com. 299 IN CNAME gmail-imap.l.google.com.
gmail-imap.l.google.com. 299 IN A 173.194.74.108
gmail-imap.l.google.com. 299 IN A 173.194.74.109
;; Query time: 28 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Wed Oct 21 01:02:22 UTC 2015
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 109
I don’t recall this ever being imap.google.com
Right now imap.gmail.com appears down for me from at least two local
networks in India, just saying
I guess that's what the original poster wanted to ask about.
Right now imap.gmail.com appears down for me from at least two local
networks in India, just saying
deets or it didn't happen...
$ telnet -4 imap.gmail.com 993
Trying 173.194.219.109...
Connected to gmail-imap.l.google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
asd
FConnection closed by foreign host.
and over 'newcoke' internet:
$ telnet imap.gmail.com 993
Trying 2607:f8b0:4002:c03::6c...
Connected to gmail-imap.l.google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP
Connection closed by foreign host.
it's rough troubleshooting without more details folks.
Sorry about this... got confused earlier 
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
Original Message
From time to time, I see outages of IMAP at Google, but they don't last long. I know it's Google, because I have five IMAP accounts on my local server (Dovecot) and I don't have any trouble with those.
Hijack: to use k9mail with gmail IMAP, I have to enable "allow less secure
clients" in the gmail web UI, but neither the Gmail people nor the k9mail
people seem to want to actually document which protocol is disliked or
required.
Anyone have any actual facts on this point?
Cheers,
-- jra
Not protocols as much as less secure ssl ciphers is my guess
--srs