[MlMt] Status: Gmail authentication issues

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

Hi everybody,

based on the number of emails during the night about Gmail 
authentication issues then I'm now going to assume this is a MailMate 
issue. Possibly a new issue or something that got worse when I tried to 
fix it after the first reports (before the 1.9.5 beta was released). 
I'll do my best today to learn more and hopefully fix or workaround 
something. (Don't expect replies to any other issues until after this is 
resolved.)

Read on if you have issues with MailMate asking to re-authenticate Gmail 
accounts. I'll start out with possible ways to make it stop and then 
I'll describe how to help me (if you have time).

# Possible workarounds

## Switch to an older release of MailMate

The public version: 
http://updates.mailmate-app.com/archives/MailMate_r5234.tbz
The last test version before the 1.9.5 features (almost as old as the 
public version): 
http://updates.mailmate-app.com/archives/MailMate_r5249.tbz
The last version before I changed anything OAuth2 related: 
http://updates.mailmate-app.com/archives/MailMate_r5255.tbz

## Switch to password based access

Open the IMAP account editor via the File menu and disable OAuth2 
authentication. This is **only** going to work if Google allows it for 
the particular account. I think this can be configured somewhere in the 
Gmail web settings, but Google regularly tightens the screw on this one.

# How to help

I'm still not seeing any issues with my own 2 Gmail accounts and 
therefore I cannot reproduce it. Here's how to generate as much data as 
possible for me with the current debug variables.

	defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmLoggingEnabled -bool YES
	defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmDebugXOAUTH2 -bool YES

Then launch MailMate like this (if MailMate is in `/Applications`):

	/Applications/MailMate.app/Contents/MacOS/MailMate

Wait until you have seen the issue once or twice and then

	* Use “Help ▸ Send Server Logs”.
	* Include the output from the Terminal window.
	* State the OS version and MailMate version used (I'm interested in any 
MailMate version having this issue in order to narrow it down).

Thanks in advance. Don't forget to disable the debug output:

	defaults delete com.freron.MailMate MmLoggingEnabled
	defaults delete com.freron.MailMate MmDebugXOAUTH2

# Other ideas?

I'm open for ideas, but I'm also a bit swamped by emails. Keep it short 
:)

-- 
Benny
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