Re: Virgin and Googlemail
 

no problem with Googlemail and POP3 here.
Did you change the POP server under advanced settings?

Re: Virgin and Googlemail
 

I use fastmail as a anti-spam throw away address, thier freebies though are only accessable via IMAP and they don't have a free SMTP server

Re: Virgin and Googlemail
 

Checked my mail server logs and Pop3 to SMTP agent for the last 24hrs and no issues collecting off 6 googlemail accounts (A combination of gmail.com and several domains with MX records pointing to google)

Hotmail is also fine.

Re: Virgin and Googlemail
 

im still having problems on my Virgin Connection.... I have now setup my emails to download what i need on my ex partners connection who is using Sky and backing the Outlook file up to bring to my own pc and it works fine on the sky connection.

Re: Virgin and Googlemail
 

No problem here, Live Mail, Hotmail & Google mail all working as expected - sorry, I know that doesn't help those having problems, but posted for perspective..

Re: Virgin and Googlemail
 

Just configured pop3 access for my gmail account - successfully downloaded 1672 messages totalling 89.7MB, so seems to work OK from here. Interestingly had to check mail four times to get it all - seems to be a limit somewhere on how much you can get at once all blocks about the same size (though not exactly) ie twentysomething MB no timeouts here.

Re: Virgin and Googlemail
 

DON'T delete that backup Outlook file from your Partner's PC until you're sure it works ok on yours!