A Networked Home

Networking your home and other tech items

Archive for May, 2008

GMail, Windows Mail, IMAP Error

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

If you are using Gmail’s new IMAP feature with Windows Mail (and possibly other clients, although this doesn’t appear to be a problem in Outlook) you will probably encounter the following error message whenever your program attempts to send/receive mail:

Header download for the ‘[Gmail]‘ folder did not complete. Could not select ‘[Gmail]‘ on the IMAP server. You might try refreshing your folder list to synchronize with the IMAP server. Account: ‘imap.gmail.com’, Server: ‘imap.gmail.com’, Protocol: IMAP, Server Response: ‘Unknown Mailbox: [Gmail] (Failure)’, Port: 993, Secure(SSL): Yes, Error Number: 0×800CCCD2

This one, thankfully, has an easy fix.  Right click on the GMail folder and select “Don’t Synchronize”.  This does not affect your sending or receiving of mail or any of IMAP settings.  That’s it!  Error solved!

Dell Inspiron 1525, Travel Pack and Co-Pilot Navigator

Monday, May 12th, 2008

I recently received a new Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop (running Windows Vista) along with the set of travel adapters (plugs for the car, airplane, etc.) and the Co-Pilot Navigator GPS hardware and software for laptops.

I have begun trying all of this out and will be posting a review of each item soon.  For now, I will give a quick first impression.

The laptop and Vista are both solid and Vista is much less annoying than I was afraid it would be.

The travel pack is as-advertised but also a little confusing due to lack of documentation.

The Co-Pilot Navigator is fantastic based on the first couple of test.