CheckGmail fails with "Error: Incorrect username or password"

by jenny on 25 June 2009 - 06:39pm in

For all the gory details, visit Updating CheckGmail to Fix Login Errors.

For the lazy, just do this:

svn co https://checkgmail.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/checkgmail /tmp/checkgmail
sudo cp /tmp/checkgmail/checkgmail /usr/bin
rm -rf /tmp/checkgmail

Voila, fixed.

Troubleshooting

The first time I did this, I got the following error:

svn: PROPFIND of '/svnroot/checkgmail': SSL negotiation failed: Connection reset by peer (https://checkgmail.svn.sourceforge.net)

I then ran the exact same command out of my history and had no problems the second time. *shrug*

If you don't have subversion installed, well, you'll need to install it:

sudo apt-get install subversion