Re: Getmail OAUTH gmail failure

Gary Schmidt <[email protected]> writes:

> 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?
>

Each access token has an expiry date/time. If it expires then it can't be used any more (obviously). Some more elaborate OAUTH2 libraries (I think in most commercial products) have some code to automatically get a new one, I think, but this one doesn't.

So this one will probably also expire some day.
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