Comments on: Checkgmail not working in Ubuntu?

By: PeTe

PeTe — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:23:10 +0000

I have done all that.. removed checkgmail home folder, installed from scratch, or using checkgmail -update .. no luck.. I am suspecting checkgmail -update doesn’t really download the newest version..

But.. I might have just found something on a german forum.. When I ran “checkgmail -v” I saw this message: “No location.replace found in HTML” followed by html code of what looked like gmail login page. Searching this message on google found http://paste.ubuntuusers.de/396474/

I just copied this directly to my /usr/bin/checkgmail and behold.. it works.. I don’t know what this guy did, but it solved my problem. So maybe Owen Marshall should know about it;-)

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:34:08 +0000

Hey, I’m on version 1.13svn too. It works ok on 2 desktops and a laptop (across 2 different gmail accounts).

It may be worth trying to clear down the settings file. I think the following should do it:

rm -R $HOME/.checkgmail

Then try getting setup again. It could be a case that something is cached or held in the settings that is causing your problems.

I doubt it’ll be due to your Wifi, or I’d be amazed if that was the reason.

By: PeTe

PeTe — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:25:34 +0000

unfortunately I wasn’t able to reach number 3.) “all fixed”. Checkgmail has been having problems during the last 3-4 weeks, that is right. But occasionally it was able to connect and work all right. First I thought that it was caused by my WEP encrypted wifi, but then I saw it on other networks as well..

my version is now CheckGmail v1.13svn, but everytime I start it, it asks for password and never accepts it (100% sure I have the correct one). What is your version? (just type “checkgmail -h”).

Has anyone had this problem too?