Problems using "googlemail" not "gmail".

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Live in the UK where gmail is called googlemail.

2. Use UK gmail username (in config) i.e. "foo.user". The notifier will 
then try to append the username with "@gmail.com". This is wrong as in the 
UK you must use "@googlemail.com".

3. Bang head and cry a little...

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expect to see mail notification... get none, not even an error. 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Latest from svn on Kubuntu 9.04 alpha

Please provide any additional information below.
Is it possiable to manually edit config? If so, where?

P.s Really nice work BTW... looking good already ;)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jahovahi...@googlemail.com on 19 Feb 2009 at 6:07

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Oooppsss !!! I wasn't aware of this UK specificity :/. For now, what you can do 
is
just replacing each occurence of "gmail.com" to "googlemail.com" in the code 
until I
figure out how to fix this in a proper way.

Original comment by gcnweb@gmail.com on 19 Feb 2009 at 6:18

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Thanks for the quick reply :). I will try this and let you know how it goes.

Original comment by jahovahi...@googlemail.com on 19 Feb 2009 at 6:33

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I'm trying to find a way to fix this issue. I'm thinking about something based 
on the
KDE global locale configuration. That is, use @googlemail.com instead of 
@gmail.com
if KDE global locale returns "gb" (I've already something working for the
configuration GUI as I write this).

One question though. Gmail Notifier fetches its data from the following URL:
https://$USER:$PASSWD@mail.google.com:443/mail/feed/atom/$LABEL

Where:
$USER = Your Gmail (I mean Googlemail :) account
$PASSWD = Your password
$LABEL = (optional) The label name

What's happening if you copy/paste the above URL (and of course replace the
corresponding values)?!

If the above URL doesn't work, do you know what the correct URL is? Because as 
it is
now it *SHOULD* work, even for people in the UK.

Thanks.

Original comment by gcnweb@gmail.com on 19 Feb 2009 at 7:08

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One more thing. The following URL
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en-GB/googlemail.html states that you (UK
people) can use http://mail.google.com/mail to use Gmail.

This URL, AFAIK, is the same everywhere else in the world (well, at least here 
in
France :) and that's also the one that is used internally by Gmail Notifier's
dataengine to fetch the ATOM feed.

Pretty weird...

Original comment by gcnweb@gmail.com on 19 Feb 2009 at 7:15

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I just committed r122 which should change the "@gmail.com" label to 
"@googlemail.com"
in the configuration GUI according to the locale set in KDE (gb).

This is only a cosmetic change though so I'll wait before closing this issue 
until
you make some more tests.

Original comment by gcnweb@gmail.com on 19 Feb 2009 at 8:04

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Hi

Sorry for the late reply. I have set my kde "locale" to gb (it was set to 
generic
English) and can confirm the issue is fixed although it still shows as 
"@gmail.com"
not as "@googlemail.com" in the config UI :)

Thanks for such a fast resolution and if i can help more with testing etc then 
just
mail me ;)

Thanks again.

Tom

Original comment by jahovahi...@googlemail.com on 20 Feb 2009 at 6:32

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Sorry too for the late reply but I was away for a while... I'm not sure I 
understand.
What I did was just a cosmetic fix in the CGUI to display @googlemail.com 
instead of
@gmail.com for people in GB. Nothing more was changed.

That means if it is working now, if was also working *before* the changes...

Should I close this issue or... ?

Original comment by gcnweb@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2009 at 9:21

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It's worth pointing out that not everybody in the UK has a @googlemail.com 
address,
only those who signed up after October 19, 2005 - people (including UK 
residents) who
signed up before that date will have a @gmail.com address.

For cosmetic changes it doesn't matter so much but if you did implement changes 
in
behaviour based solely on the locale, you're going to break it for some people. 

Original comment by stephend...@gmail.com on 6 Mar 2009 at 1:21

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These were just cosmetic changes and only affected the configuration GUI. 
AFAIK, and
except somebody prove me I'm wrong, the URL for fetching the ATOM feed is the 
same
for everyone!

If this applet is working for you and you have a @googlemail.com address I 
think it's
safe to close this issue.

Original comment by gcnweb@gmail.com on 7 Mar 2009 at 5:21

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I just made a small test here with my account. I own a @gmail.com account and 
just
tried to send an e-mail to myself by replacing @gmail.com with @googlemail.com:
- myaccount@gmail.com -> myaccount@googlemail.com

To me, that just means this is a non-issue since I received my own e-mail. I'm 
pretty
sure Google doesn't allow 2 different users to create a same account name on 
both
@gmail.com and @googlemail.com domains!

I'm closing this. Feel free to re-open if I mistook the real problem.

Original comment by gcnweb@gmail.com on 9 Mar 2009 at 12:11

• Changed state: Fixed