[ubuntu-za] Help for two programmes: Geary Mail and Lightread RSS Reader

[Wesley Werner]

Geary looks like a very nice project! So I'll try to set it up with my
Gmail and report any issues.

Result: Geary is running great, on first run I entered my gmail
account name and password, it works without any further settings.

The details:

I see it uses vala, a new language similar to C#. I'm running on
Wheezy repos, my repo version is only 0.16. Geary requires 0.18. Oops.

So off I go to build vala, after a somewhat battle resolving leftover
dependencies from the older version, I got it installed OK. -- seems
like the latest git repo has a chicken-and-egg issue where it requires
>= vala-0.17 to build itself. Heh. The tarball source does not suffer
this.

@Johan, a quick find located where geary stores the acccount db stuffs:

  ~$ find . -iname "geary"
  ./.local/share/geary

Also it stores the account login in the gnome keyring :)

Thanks for pointing this out, the gmail web UI was making me bonkers
and I dreaded setting up offlineimap (again) to use with mutt ;]
--
Wesley


On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Johan Mynhardt <johanmynhardt at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:29 , Johan Mynhardt <johanmynhardt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:38 , Leon Gert Marincowitz
> <lmarincowitz at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi All
>
> Since updating to Quantal I've had problems with two programmes. Geary Mail
> and Lightread.
>
> Lightread wont log me in to Google Reader
> Geary Mail wont log me into GMail.
>
> I uninstall-reinstall but it never works. I was wondering if there was
> something I could do? Say some archive, hidden file that messes with the
> programme or it is a Quantal thing?
>
> --
> Kind Regards
>
> Leon
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>
> Hi Leon,
>
> Do you by any chance have GMail's 2-step-verification activated?
>
> I just compiled geary from scratch and it worked flawlessly (taken into
> account that I have created an app-specific login before proceeding).
> I used the defaults to log in.
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> Something small, but I forgot about 2-step in the past...
> --
> Kind Regards,
> Johan
> (Sent using Geary - for testing purposes)
>
>
> Ok, just a question... where is the account settings after it's been set up
> once!? I can't for the life of me find it... I think the build might have
> missed something?
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