Strange error but synching anyway with gmail

[Rainer M Krug]

Le jeudi 22 septembre 2016, Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev at laposte.net> a
écrit :

> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 09:18:14AM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>
> > OK - I added
> >
> > ,----
> > | auth_mechanisms = GSSAPI, CRAM-MD5, PLAIN, LOGIN
> > `----
> >
> > to the
> >
> > ,----
> > | [Repository RemoteRMKrugGMAIL]
> > `----
> >
> > section and the error message is gone.
>
> Roger that. We have a problem.
>
> The XOAUTH2 authentication should not be tried if no XOAUTH2
> configuration option is set.
>
> Could you please try v7.0.7?
>
>

Thanks - Will do so tomorrow as I am upgrading at the moment.

> But I would like to try OATH2.
> >
> > Now I would like to enable XOAUTH2 and I have all the clientid and
> > secret. But what is the "accountname" in
> >
> > ,----
> > | oauth2_client_id_eval = get_client_id("accountname")
> > | oauth2_client_secret_eval = get_client_secret("accountname")
> > `----
> >
> > I tried my gmail address and the name of the project, but I still get
> > the same error message?
>
> The *_eval configuration options are the evaluable option to provide the
> the real value by a function stored in the pythonfile.


Ok - got it.

>
> Here, "accountname" is whatever string for the function in the
> pythonfile to return the correct value if there are more than one
> account using the same function. This helps to factorize the code in the
> pythonfile.


So the value is stored somewhere else and the function returns the value -
perfect.


>
> > Is there a specific dependency for OAUTH2?
>
> There is no external Python dependency. The dependencies should be
> provided by the "basic/default" Python environment.


Ok - will try it out tomorrow and store the values in my keychain from the
mac.

Thanks,

Rainer


>
> --
> Nicolas Sebrecht
>


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