[MlMt] Google login issues?

[Steve Mayer]

Benny,

  Will you be making a Beta 2.0 as drop as well with the workaround?  
I'm experiencing this about 4 times a day.

-- 
Steve Mayer
smayer69 at me.com

On 1 Sep 2016, at 1:45, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 31 Aug 2016, at 21:03, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>
>> On 31 Aug 2016, at 20:22, Kee Hinckley wrote:
>>
>>> I haven't tried any of those solutions yet. I _did_ discover that 
>>> the best way to deal with it is to hit cancel and then go reenable 
>>> the account. Most of the time it then succeeds without the 400 
>>> error. There's no actual need to renew the token. Sure feels like a 
>>> Google bug. Maybe some attempt at spam limiting?
>>
>> This indicates that a possible workaround for MailMate is to wait 
>> longer between retries before reporting it as an error (but it's an 
>> annoying workaround, because it's non-deterministic).
>
> I've done this in this release: 
> http://updates.mailmate-app.com/archives/MailMate_r5258.tbz
>
> By default, MailMate now waits 0, 20, 40, and 60 seconds before each 
> retry. Every time MailMate gets a new so-called access token based on 
> its refresh token. If this fails then MailMate still asks to 
> re-authenticate the account in order to get a new refresh token.
>
> I haven't had much feedback on it yet and I'll appreciate if anyone 
> having the Gmail issue could try it out and let me know whether or not 
> it helps. Off list if you like.
>
> Based on reports, it does not seem like the number of Gmail accounts 
> matter much, but there might be an indication that it is more likely 
> to happen if multiple instances of MailMate accesses the same Gmail 
> account... But this is pure guesswork.
>
> It also does not seem to matter if it's a free Gmail account or a 
> business account.
>
> -- 
> Benny
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