#117 checkgmail is busted even with "-no_cookies"

[Rick Richardson]

checkgmail is busted even with "-no_cookies".

$ checkgmail -no_cookies -v -debug
CheckGmail v1.15pre2
Copyright © 2005-15 Owen Marshall


        use Gtk2("init");
        use Gtk2::SimpleList;
        use threads;
        use Thread::Queue;
        use Thread::Semaphore;
        use threads::shared;
        use Encode;
        use XML::Simple;
        use FileHandle;
        use LWP::UserAgent;
        use HTTP::Request::Common;
        use Crypt::SSLeay;


                use Crypt::Simple passphrase => "<censored>";
                use Crypt::Blowfish;
                use FreezeThaw;
                use Compress::Zlib;
                use Digest::MD5;
                use MIME::Base64;

About to start new thread ...
Parent: Process now continues ...
Parent: Setting up global variables ...
Child: Checking thread now starting ... waiting for semaphore to continue
Parent: Checking the existence of ~/.checkgmail ...
Parent: Loading icon data ...
Parent: Setting up system tray ...
Parent: Reading translations ...
Parent: Reading prefs ...
Parent: System tray now complete ...
Parent: Sending semaphore to child process ...
Initialisation complete
Checking Gmail ...
Error: 401 Unauthorized
Checking Gmail ...
Error: 401 Unauthorized
^C
$

[Rick Richardson]

If you configure the Google Account security settings to "Allow less secure apps: ON", then you can use checkgmail with "-no-cookies".