GMail's IMAP stopped working for me

[Jonas Hörsch]

On Fri, Aug 17 2012, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:

> 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 [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.

thanks for trying it and letting me know.

it turns out to be most likely a known issue spooking through gmail for
about 9 days, which only affects a subset of imap users. they seem to
have a fix, but only be able to roll it out to small sets of affected
users at a time, which has been the official status for a week, now.

See forum threads [1], [2] and known issues list [3], where one can
report being affected.

it seems i have to live with accessing my mail by the browser for some
time :(

so long,
jonas

Footnotes:

[1] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/gmail/computer-email-program-please-specify-apple-mail-outlook-thunderbird-etc/report-an-issue/wmsVk7E4PLE%5B51-75%5D

[2] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/gmail/zN18OzdotSY%5B1-25%5D

[3] http://support.google.com/mail/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=known_issues.cs (under IMAP)