System.net.imap4 not connecting gmail server

Question

User-148788041 posted
Using system.net.imap4
r client= new Imap4client();
client.connect("imap.gmail.com",993,true)
Error cannot connect

Answer 1

User753101303 posted

Hi,

This is the real exception message you have? It's best to start from the actual message. For now my guess would be a firewall issue which should show something such as "the connection failed because the server took too much time to respond or don't respond at all" (meaning basically the network request is sent correctly but you don't get any response at all from the server ie most often being blocked by a firewall).

Answer 2

User-148788041 posted
I am able to login into gmail from ie browser.from code i get this exception established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.

Is port no and gmail server are correct in code.

Answer 3

User753101303 posted

Seems correct accordint to https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229?hl=en (you enabled IMAP as shown in "Step 1" ?). Else it seems a better worded message than the one I expected when blocked by a firewall.

I'll try myself a bit later.