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I am sure that I am not the only one who has experienced a glitch with checkgmail over the last few days. It kept popping up a box asking me to verify my user/password info and then would fail to connect. I went to the project home page http://checkgmail.sourceforge.net/ where this bit of info is posted:
Recent 401 Unauthorised Issues
The bad news first: if you're getting this error after restarting checkgmail, you seem to have encountered an IP-address-specific login issue, courtesy of everyone's best friend Mr. Google. I'm not sure why this is happening, and I don't know how to beat it yet. You can follow developments on the forum thread here.
The good news is that if you're on a standard ADSL account with a dynamic IP address, you should be able to get checkgmail working again by power-cycling your modem (thus resetting the DSL connection and obtaining a new IP address).
I followed the link in the announcement and read through the thread. The author posted a link to a new checkgmail script. I downloaded it and gave it a try. It worked fine for me without the authorization error. I replaced my /usr/bin/checkgmail file with the new one and have not had any issues. I thought I'd share this info in case anyone else has been experiencing the same connection problems.
Here is the forum thread: http://sourceforge.net/projects/checkgm … 947/index/
Here is a direct link to the new script: http://checkgmail.svn.sourceforge.net/v … evision=40
[EDIT: Added forum thread link]
[EDIT: Spelling & topic]
Last edited by Rumor (2009-10-09 01:48:41)
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Fixed here too! Thanks for sharing!!
csat
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I know I'm nitpicking, but it's not a binary... It's a Perl script.
When I saw your topic my first question was 'why a binary, this is a Linux application, unless it's closed source there's no need to provide a binary instead of source code'.
Just my two cents... I'd change the topic title .
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Thank you! This been getting annoying and making me paranoid.
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I'll flip the OP around with a "good news/bad news" followup. The good news is, the new script fixes the checkgmail problem (thanks 1024K, Rumor!) The bad news is, now when I click on the toolbar icon to load my mailbox, I'm stopped at the login page and I have to retype my password *every stinkin' time*. It no longer even offers me the option of remembering me (presumably by way of cookies).
Has this happened to anyone else? And if so, were you able to solve it?
Peter B. Steiger
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This fixed it for regular gmail accounts but not my hosted domain/apps account....that's a big bummer...
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Is there a fix for hosted domains yet? I am having a hard time living without...
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Thanks for posting this fix. Now I have a working email notifier
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2 months later finally found something....If anyone is still searching for a workaround for the hosted domains issue, running checkgmail with the -no_cookies option fixed it for me.
Happy new year...
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Doesn't work for me.
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