Comments on: Getting Gmail To Resume POP Access With Captcha Unlock

By: Rod Hardman

Rod Hardman — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:22:06 +0000

Danny

You rock – been scratching my head about this and came across your posting – fixed beautifully

thanks!
Rod

By: Deb

Deb — Mon, 09 May 2011 00:55:23 +0000

Thanks, Danny! I just started having this problem this morning & nothing that I tried worked until I found this post.
Thanks again. All fixed.
Cheers,
Deb

By: D2

D2 — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:22:44 +0000

The issue still comes up with me, but I’ve learned to deal with it by simply Googleing gmail, captcha, unlock every time it happens. I never know why, but instead of being alarmed, I simply go to:
https://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha and it unlocks and unblocks my Outlook in MS Office 2007 every time. Still doesn’t address the issue of WHY; just simply provides the FIX.
By the way, I operate Outlook in Gmail as an IMAP account, too.
Hope this is helpful.

By: Bushy69

Bushy69 — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:46:10 +0000

Same issue here using Outlook 8. Use to happen every frew months, then every month, now weekly. I get locked out of emails for hours (can log into gmail and see mail, but POP wont work, so can’t send/receive from my email client). Installing an email server now, and doing away with GMAIL…. it’s a dud (assuming Google are trying to get into the cloud with Google Apps, you think they would get the most important one right… hopeless).

Avoid GMAIL if your intention is to POP mail to your iphone or desktop mail client, very problematic.

By: CaffeinatedTech

CaffeinatedTech — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:12:13 +0000

I’ve got a client with the same problem. she is using Thunderbird on Windows 7. I fixed it with the Captcha unlock rubbish then she calls back the next day saying its doing the same thing.

I’m going to have to give her the link and hope she can work out the captcha or she is going to be calling me all the time about it.

It would be nice to have some indication of why the account is getting locked.

By: D2

D2 — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:16:31 +0000

I too am now having the same problem with Outlook being blocked by Gmail, which took HOURS to learn was simply the same captcha issue described above. I have Outlook 2007, from which I was operating my Gmail account just fine for nearly a year, when, all of a sudden, this IMAP SERVER NOT RECOGINIZING issue began to show up and blocked Outlook from synchronizing with Gmail. I had this issue fixed and was operating again – for about 48 hours – then it started all over again. So, why in the heck is this issue continuing, and why does Gmail continue to block Outlook 2007?!?! This really SUCKS.

By: Sergey

Sergey — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:03:20 +0000

And now I have to go and answer Captcha unlock request every time before receiving mail from gmail server, even 10 times during a day – it is the most moronic mail service that I have forever!
I see I have to arrange resending a mail to another mail server for normal work with my emails. Why Gmail bacame so stupid?

By: Fred Lacoste

Fred Lacoste — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:48:15 +0000

I just wanna say thanks!

No where i saw this captcha thing and it fixed everything THANK YOU for taking the time to write this text!

Fred

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:07:32 +0000

I know I’m resurrecting a zombie thread, but I wanted to add a comment that the problem has shown up on my Dad’s computer using Mail.app for Mac twice in the last month.

The first time it took me several hours to come across this solution, but now it’s in memory and I’ve sent him the link so he can fix it himself in the future. It would sure be nice to know what’s triggering this issue!

By: larrianm

larrianm — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:33:24 +0000

I hit the same issue today — took me 30 minutes to track this down –fortunately, I have gmail pop troublshooter installed, and although it threw 4 different error messages indicating my USER ID was wrong, the very last entry took me to a page that said as a footnote that I could try clearing my captcha — with a link.