new gmail ?

I haven’t seen this with my gmail account.

Are you using POP or IMAP? POP doesn’t know anything about folders.

pop-ssl… can’t connect on port 110..

it went thru my sent mails, triggering 337 ‘unauthorised post’ notices, and 2 successful ones

If you are wanting your folders to be recognized you need to use IMAP-SSL on port 993.

i don’t need it to be recognising any folders, just picking up new mails to be posted. it worked beautifully just some time back

Debug Output

Connect to Mail Host
Postie connection: sockets
Postie protocol: pop3-ssl
Postie server: pop.gmail.com
Postie port: 995
pConnection: mailbox: INBOX
Connecting via Socket
Socket: tls://pop.gmail.com:995
Socket error: 0 - 
Socket: POP3
socket read (1) :+OK Gpop ready for requests from 115.42.251.102 e11-v6mb162546760ywl
Socket: attempting a secure connection
socket write: STLS
socket read (1) :-ERR not supported e11-v6mb162546760ywl
socket write: USER **********@gmail.com
socket read (1) :+OK send PASS
socket write: (login) LOGIN/APOP/PASS
socket read (1) :+OK Welcome.
socket write: STAT
socket read (1) :+OK 394 3346843
pop count: +OK 394 3346843
Successful POP3-SSL connection on port 995
# of waiting messages: 394
socket write: QUIT
socket read (1) :+OK Farewell.
Test complete

problem is i have 3 mails in inbox and 400+ in Sent mails .. like you mentioned.. POP doesn’t recognise folders… so i am not too sure where it’s picking up the emails from

Did you try switching to IMAP-SSL?

nope … my php server does not have imap extension enabled..

Current versions of Postie do not use the IMAP extension.