I’ve just had two of my Gmail accounts start returning the “IMAP is not availablef or your account” error. Both are Google Apps accounts.
Anyone else having this problem?
I’ve just had two of my Gmail accounts start returning the “IMAP is not availablef or your account” error. Both are Google Apps accounts.
Anyone else having this problem?
Don’t use IMAP but the google chat is down for me (the one bundled into gmail).
Looked like it was down for about half an hour for all my clients this morning….webmail still worked.
It went down for me at the same time as you.
And this after I spent 2 days converting all of my business and personal email accounts over to Google Apps.
I’ve also had a problem converting over my email. During the first day of my conersion (two days ago) I could just drag in thousands of emails at a time (from Apple mail) and Google’s IMAP would do the rest (preserving date, read-state, attachments, etc). And then about a day and a half ago it wouldn’t let me upload more that 30-50 at a time (I still have several more thousand to go for archiving and at this rate i will take me weeks instead of hours to archive all the mail in Google Apps). Maybe this is all related to similar problems (and maybe not). =\
Gmail has this mysterious "Lockdown in Sector 4" error that they give out, and is a temporary lockout for accounts flagged as doing something that they shouldn’t. Not necessarily illegal/spam shouldn’t, but like two computers are accessing the account at the same time, or massive amounts of messages being uploaded/downloaded, etc. I’ve been hitting it a lot lately with two machines running IMAP, but I’m usually only locked out for about an hour, and the webmail client still works fine.
You might try importing your mail via IMAP instead. Check out http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=61369
Unfortunately I don’t meet the prerequisites to use their import tools (previous mail must be on something like Exchange). All of my email (previously) was using POP only.
You can always copy your email to a local IMAP server. You could download any IMAP virtual appliance to run on your local machine, copy email to it, and let Gmail import from there. Delete the virtual appliance when you’re done.