Re: Gnus blocked by Gmail?

[Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Tuesday, 26 Aug 2014 at 19:17, Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> But I think I got it - you question about the -alias1 made me search
>> where this is defined and I found /etc/hosts where I had several of this
>
> [...]
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>> and this new IP finally makes it work again. 
>>
>> So it seems Google just dropped the old IP I used and things stopped
>> working. Puh, simple cause, simple cure, but somehow tricky diagnosis, I
>> hope I remember this for the future ...
>>
>> Thanks a lot for you help, Adam and Eric!
>
> Silly question maybe but do you not have support for DNS on your system?
> Why do you need to specify an IP address in your /etc/hosts file at all?

mmhhh ... not a silly question I would say. guess I should overhaul my
mail config a bit, but once it works, I never want to change the running
system ;)

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cheers,
Thorsten