Re: Getmail OAUTH gmail failure

Gary Schmidt <[email protected]> Sat, 12 Mar 2022 23:53:40 +1100

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On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 11:25 PM Pieter van Oostrum <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Gary Schmidt <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Getmail has been happily pulling stuff down from gmail using OAUTH for,
> oh,
> > a week or so, and it's just started doing this:
> >
> [SNIP]
>


> Could it be that the access-token has expired? I have looked into the code
> of getmail-gmail-xoauth-tokens and I got the impression that it doesn't do
> a refres of the token, wnen it expires. It probably will give an error
> message, but if you run getmail in the background you may not see this.
>
> Yes, I think you are right, I  ran the "getmail-gmail-xoauth-tokens
--init" command again and it now works.

Hopefully it will stick this time, I wonder what broke it?

        Cheers,
                Gary    B-)