The plugin tries to connect to https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/AuthForInstalledApps which fails. Using this URL in a browser shows this info: "Important: ClientLogin has been officially deprecated since April 20, 2012 and is now no longer available. Requests to ClientLogin will fail with a HTTP 404 response. We encourage you to migrate to OAuth 2.0 as soon as possible." For the GData plugin to work again, please migrate your authentication method to OAuth 2.0
Changes related to this bug have been committed. Please check latest Git and update the bug accordingly. You can also get the patch from: http://git.claws-mail.org/ ++ ChangeLog 2015-06-14 14:49:02.957874773 +0200 http://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws.git;a=commitdiff;h=c487dddd2c46e3359d6f294ea387adfd77d029d8 Merge: 4386d3b de3e09e Author: Colin Leroy <colin@colino.net> Date: Sun Jun 14 14:49:02 2015 +0200 Merge branch 'master' of file:///home/git/claws http://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws.git;a=commitdiff;h=de3e09ee3239e11ce065f47d5466d08806e31ee6 Author: Holger Berndt <hb@claws-mail.org> Date: Sun Jun 14 14:42:19 2015 +0200 Update sample jhbuildrc file http://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws.git;a=commitdiff;h=6e63b752f6bedb28d25e1e14695a3d710168128e Author: Holger Berndt <hb@claws-mail.org> Date: Sun Jun 14 14:41:38 2015 +0200 Gdata plugin: Remove now obsolete CM_GDATA_CLIENT_ID macro def http://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws.git;a=commitdiff;h=aaa86dbd5cdceb5204313a068d0fc0ad067252d0 Author: Holger Berndt <hb@claws-mail.org> Date: Sun Jun 14 14:40:52 2015 +0200 GData plugin: Remove now obsolete password pref http://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws.git;a=commitdiff;h=c69ab3b4cdc16eb5c271afb4c028e1c2f8beffc7 Author: Holger Berndt <hb@claws-mail.org> Date: Sun Jun 14 14:28:20 2015 +0200 GData plugin: Switch from ClientLogin to OAuth2 Google has recently removed ClientLogin support. The switch to OAuth2 fixes bug #3432 and makes the plugin work again, but with a degraded user experience. The authorization needs to be redone on every program start. Improving that is pending on https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750746 http://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws.git;a=commitdiff;h=63e39e3b8c9baa0745c4ce7088d619c7bb05778c Author: Holger Berndt <hb@claws-mail.org> Date: Sun Jun 14 11:40:47 2015 +0200 GData plugin: Change debug output order during plugin load http://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws.git;a=commitdiff;h=7d3b4a6e716846d386341001bf9d98ef960d779c Author: Holger Berndt <hb@claws-mail.org> Date: Sat May 30 19:26:35 2015 +0200 GData plugin: Drop support for libgdata < 0.9
Changes related to this bug have been committed. Please check latest Git and update the bug accordingly. You can also get the patch from: http://git.claws-mail.org/ ++ ChangeLog 2015-06-18 00:36:02.899228110 +0200 http://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws.git;a=commitdiff;h=6ea8ac8cd31f6b622603fa24f27636eaffb141fb Merge: 8432a7c aadb7d5 Author: Colin Leroy <colin@colino.net> Date: Thu Jun 18 00:36:02 2015 +0200 Merge branch 'master' of file:///home/git/claws http://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws.git;a=commitdiff;h=aadb7d5405e67c0823a624728652c01055c837f6 Author: Holger Berndt <hb@claws-mail.org> Date: Sun Jun 14 21:45:16 2015 +0200 GData plugin: Support cold-start Store refresh token, and try to authorize Google access with it on startup. Interactive authorization is now only the fallback if refreshing cannot be done or was not successful. Fixes bug #3432 but requires yet unreleased libgdata, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750746
OAuth2 support is now in git, but currently requires libgdata from git, so the dependancy is somewhat hard to fulfill.