Unable to use Gmail in Thunderbird 3

Posted by Jatin Ganhotra on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Jatin Ganhotra
Published on 2011-03-09T13:22:40Z Indexed on 2012/11/13 17:04 UTC
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Mozilla Thunderbird v.3.1.7
I am trying to setup Gmail, but none of the settings are working. I have tried every resource:

  1. Blogs, tutorials
  2. Instructions by Google
  3. Instructions by Thunderbird
  4. Questions here

But, still its not working. My settings are as follows

Server Settings

Server Type: IMAP Mail server
Server Name: imap.gmail.com
Username: [email protected]
Port: 993
Default: 993
Connection Security: SSL/TLS
Authentication method: Encrypted password

Outgoing server (SMTP)

Server Name: smtp.gmail.com
Port: 587
Default: 25
Connection Security: STARTTLS
Authentication method: Encrypted password
Username: [email protected]

IMAP is enabled in my Gmail settings.

ERROR: Connection to the server [email protected] timed out.

I am behind a proxy server and I have configured those settings under:
Thunderbird Preferences -> Advanced -> Network and Disk Space -> Connection Settings -> Manual Proxy Configuration

The proxy configuration works, as when I created a Blogs and News feeds a/c, it was working properly and fetching the feeds for me. So, Thunderbird is configured properly as per the proxy settings.

Help me.

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