GMail's IMAP stopped working for me

Eygene Ryabinkin rea-fbsd at codelabs.ru
Fri Aug 17 09:04:44 UTC 2012


Jonas, good day.

Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 01:58:50AM +0200, Jonas H??rsch wrote:
> but it doesn't seem to be offlineimap's fault, as an ipython session
> gives me:
> 
> In [1]: import imaplib
> 
> In [2]: im = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.gmail.com")
> 
> In [3]: im.login("changed", "omitted")
> Out[3]: ('OK', ['changed at gmail.com Whoever authenticated (Success)'])
> 
> In [4]: im.list()
> Out[4]: 
> ('OK',
>  ['(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX"',
>   ...
>  ])
> 
> In [5]: im.select("INBOX")
> Out[5]: ('NO', ['System error (Failure)'])

Works for my GMail account.  Both from imaplib Python's session
and from OfflineIMAP.  Looks like you'll need to ask folks at GMail
what's wrong with IMAP access to your mailbox.
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