[Users] Unrecognized static network settings

[Eric N.]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Andrej Kacian <andrej at kacian.sk> wrote:
> This is something Claws Mail has no control over. In simple terms, it
> means "connection to imap.gmail.com works, but this remote server
> actively refuses connections to its port 993 (nothing is listening on
> that port)".
>
> Since it is unlikely that Google turns off their IMAP servers, it might
> be something at your end, perhaps a restrictive firewall, bad IPv6
> configuration or something similar.
>
> What does output of following commands look like?
>
> ping -c 1 -W 3 imap.gmail.com
> telnet imap.gmail.com 993
> telnet -4 imap.gmail.com 993
>
> Regards,
> --
> Andrej
Hello and thanks Andrej,
Here are the outputs :

$ ping -c 1 -W 3 imap.gmail.com
PING gmail-imap.l.google.com (64.233.166.108) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from wm-in-f108.1e100.net (64.233.166.108): icmp_seq=1 ttl=40
time=54.1 ms

--- gmail-imap.l.google.com ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 54.107/54.107/54.107/0.000 ms

$ telnet imap.gmail.com 993
Trying 64.233.184.108...
[hangs indefinetely]

$ telnet -4 imap.gmail.com 993
telnet: invalid option -- '4'
Usage: telnet [-8] [-E] [-L] [-S tos] [-a] [-c] [-d] [-e char] [-l user]
[-n tracefile] [-b hostalias ] [-r]
 [host-name [port]]

$ telnet -8 imap.gmail.com 993
Trying 64.233.166.109...
[hangs indefinetely]