[MlMt] Status: Gmail authentication issues

[Paul Sture]

On 3 Sep 2016, at 7:43, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I've gotten surprisingly little feedback on this problem (for some 
> users it has simply disappeared) and I've got no example logs yet 
> (logs as described in the original message further below).
>
> One hint is a user reporting that MailMate did not update the keychain 
> with new tokens after re-authentication, but this user no longer has 
> the issue. My current theory (*based on very little*) is that the 
> problem is something like this:
>
> 1. Google has a temporary problem and rejects valid refresh tokens.
> 2. Google has a temporary problem and rejects returning a new refresh 
> token (when re-authenticting).
> 3. MailMate fails to report when 2. fails.

 From the lateral thinking department:

Applying Thursday's OS X Security Update required a reboot.  I have no 
idea whether a reboot could reset "something" involved here, but I 
thought it worth mentioning.