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Checkgmail not working in Ubuntu?

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Robert Beal

Over the last few weeks checkgmail has not been working. This is quite common given Google probably changing things around. So it has happened in the past, and requires and update to be pushed out. Unfortunately, via the repositories this is quite a slow affair. There is a quicker solution though…

  1. Open up a terminal window
  2. Type “sudo checkgmail -update”
  3. All fixed!

Very simple to do. I hadn’t realised this before, but checkgmail has its own updater and it’s very easy to use. So if you are having problems, it’s probably worth trying the above.

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  • PeTe

    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?

  • Robert

    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.

  • PeTe

    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;-)