Problem with Gmail pop3

[vance43211]

this is gmail related. i have troubleshooted it down to gmail. i can't contact them either. having a router and 2 gmail accounts seems to play a role in it too

my post on gmail.

I can't access email through incredimal, outlook or outlook express.
sometime it works. but most of the time it doesn't.
 
I have everytime configure properly. if I put the computer on somebody
else ip address, everything will always work. then i come home and it will work for a few hours. then it will stop again
 
for some reason, it started working again this morning. then as soon as
i add my kids gmail account in with mine this afternoon, it stopped
again.
 
it look like gmail is intentionally blocking it. help

[vance43211]

I just found the solution. my post to incredimail support

OK. Here’s the deal. Outlook and express both stopped working after a few hour or so. Thunderbird would not work. I concluded that gmail is the problem.

Outlook express did however produce an error code. I googled it and it seems that a lot of people have this problem. I immediate notice 2 thing people had in common. A router (most had this issue) and multiple gmail accounts. I am a bull head who refuse to quit when I have a problem so this what I did. The 2 account thing lead me nowhere (although I now suspect that the multiple gmail accounts lead to the router blocking the ports). So now I went after the router
I type in the router (192.168.x.xx). I then made 2 firewall exceptions in the router. 1 was called Mail Pop3 (with port 995 down as the beginning and end port and set to allow outbound connections) and Mail Stmp (with port 465 down as the beginning and end port and set to allow outbound connections).

Everything seems to work now.

Gmail has router issues