[Alpine-info] Gmail Access

[Eduardo Chappa via Alpine-info]

On Sat, 18 May 2024, Marc Lytle via Alpine-info wrote:


> I have set up Alpine with Gmail and I'm able to successfully connect to 

> the Gmail account and access/send email. The issue is that this just 

> stops working after a couple of days.


What happened during the "couple of days" that you mention here? Let me 
explain what I am asking. Was Alpine kept open during that time and then 
closed, and the reopened? My thinking is that the issue you are reporting 
could be due to alpine not writing the password file. To check this you 
would have to open two parallel sessions of Alpine, the second after the 
first has succeeded saving the refresh token.

On the other hand, I believe that refresh tokens expire if you set up the 
publishing status of your app to be in testing, rather than in production, 
and that period of expiration is a few days (seven?), so maybe take a look 
into that.

If you run alpine with debug (alpine -d 9) you can see if Alpine found a 
token to try in your password file to have another way to test if alpine 
is saving your tokens in the password file.

I hope this helps.

-- 
Eduardo