"ERROR: Could not resolve name 'imap.gmail.com' for repository"

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 01/28/14, 03:18 , cpblpublic+offlineimap at gmail.com wrote:
> Stephen, I'm getting the same thing now.

It is working again - I assume it has to do with the gmail outage
yesterday. But this still leaves the question, if it would be possible
not to hardcode the gmail imap only, but possibly to provide the
possibility to use imap.googlemail.com instead, or to try both if one
fails?

Rainer

> Chris
> 
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, Stephen J. Barr wrote:
> 
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> Today I checked my running offlineimap process and for my gmail 
>> accounts it gives the error:
>> 
>> 
>> ##########################
>> 
>> *** Processing account stevejb_uw Establishing connection to
>> imap.gmail.com:993 ERROR: Could not resolve name 'imap.gmail.com'
>> for repository 'uw_remote'. Make sure you have configured the
>> server name correctly and that you are online. *** Finished
>> account 'stevejb_uw' in 0:00
>> 
>> ##########################
>> 
>> It will wait a few minutes and then try again. I can ping 
>> imap.gmail.com and that seems to work. Note that this is on both
>> my laptop and my desktop, which are currently connected to the
>> same network.
>> 
>> Is this a problem on my end or could there be a problem with 
>> imap.gmail.com?
>> 
>> -Stephen
>> 
>> 
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>>
>>
>> 
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>> 
> 
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