Blink1 doesn't work with gmail.

[alanwolfx]

Like many others, I've done everything specified in the very unclear documentation, to no avail.

[todbot]

Hi Alan,

How is it not working? Is it giving an error?
Perhaps we have different assumptions about how it works.
Here's a typical use case:

1. Go to Mail tab, click on "[+]" icon to create new Mail rule
2. Enter in a Description of your choosing, pick Gmail as the type, then enter in your gmail address and password.
3. Pick an alert type. I like "Subject contains".
   
4. Click "Ok" and you'll see it say "Checking..."
   
   If any existing messages in your Inbox match, it will say "Matching Messages(n)"
   
5. When a new message comes in that matches the alert type, it will say "New Matching Messages(n)"
   

Does that help at all?

[alanwolfx]

Tod:

When I got to the Mail tab I can type in a description, but on the next
line, GMAIL is not an option.
There appears to be a pulldown, but it doesn't pull down, and it only
offers me IMAP.
Anyway, I fill in the correct mail server, etc., etc. and although
emails arrive in my inbox, no blink from blink1.
I simply get a "Connection Error."

Alan

On 7/3/2014 8:02 PM, Tod E. Kurt wrote:

Hi Alan,

How is it not working? Is it giving an error?
Perhaps we have different assumptions about how it works.
Here's a typical use case:

1. Go to Mail tab, click on "[+]" icon to create new Mail rule
2. Enter in a Description of your choosing, pick Gmail as the type,
   then enter in your gmail address and password.
3. Pick an alert type. I like "Subject contains".
   blink1control-gmail-popup
   https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/274093/3476983/c5ed6bc8-030c-11e4-8ba8-0a1380fcc12d.png
4. Click "Ok" and you'll see it say "Checking..."
   blink1control-gmail-checking
   https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/274093/3477017/8ea36a7c-030d-11e4-9ef0-0cb7806afa4a.png
   If any existing messages in your Inbox match, it will say "Matching
   Messages(n)"
   blink1control-gmail-matching
   https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/274093/3477022/95606e6e-030d-11e4-93cc-dd3a71804ba9.png
5. When a /new/ message comes in that matches the alert type, it will
   say "New Matching Messages(n)"
   blink1control-gmail-newmatch
   https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/274093/3477034/1e8aa6c8-030e-11e4-93c3-146c40eb7935.png

Does that help at all?

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[todbot]

Hmm, I'm unclear why the drop-down isn't working. What OS are you on?

But you can still get it to work with IMAP (which is what the Gmail setting is really). As I look on the Gmail help pages, I think Google might not enable IMAP by default. On this help page, Google describes how to enable IMAP for Gmail:
https://support.google.com/mail/troubleshooter/1668960?hl=en#ts=1665018

[alanwolfx]

Windows 7, 64 bit.

On 7/3/2014 11:09 PM, Tod E. Kurt wrote:

Hmm, I'm unclear why the drop-down isn't working. What OS are you on?

But you can still get it to work with IMAP (which is what the Gmail
setting is really). As I look on the Gmail help pages, I think Google
might not enable IMAP by default. On this help page, Google describes
how to enable IMAP for Gmail:
https://support.google.com/mail/troubleshooter/1668960?hl=en#ts=1665018

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[alanwolfx]

But you can still get it to work with IMAP (which is what the Gmail
setting is really). As I look on the Gmail help pages, I think Google
might not enable IMAP by default. On this help page, Google describes
how to enable IMAP for Gmail:
https://support.google.com/mail/troubleshooter/1668960?hl=en#ts=1665018

I was already set for IMAP in Gmail.

[todbot]

Also, when using Gmail with generic IMAP, the Blink1Control settings should be:

• server: imap.gmail.com
• SSL: yes
• port: 993

If that's already your setting, then maybe you have a firewall or UAC setting that's preventing Blink1Control from contacting Gmail?

[todbot]

Note to tod: Found the bug with the mail server type popup not working, only happens on certain versions of Windows & Qt. Error is:

file:///C:/Qt/Qt5.3.1/5.3/msvc2013/qml/QtQuick/Controls/Private/MenuContentItem.qml:217:27: Unable to assign [undefined] to int

[alanwolfx]

Yes, I had all of those settings... server, SSL, port.
And I turned off my firewall briefly -- no help.

[morvy]

Win 8.1 x64 and I don't have dropdown too
with IMAP I don't have problems with Gmail, but I have problems with my Outlook.com account

My wife has same app, same OS, same settings and her notifications work correctly for Outlook, I'm getting Connection error (Internal IMAP error), maybe POP will help here

[todbot]

I think I found the reason for the CONNECTION ERROR bug on Windows. New build process doesn't include SSL libraries by default. New v1.91 release will address this.

[todbot]

Please try new version v1.91. I believe it fixes the problem.
https://github.com/todbot/blink1/releases/

[morvy]

IMAP for Outlook doesn't work, but POP works so perfect. Select menu also works + Gmail works with IMAP and Gmail correctly

sidenote: IMAP for Outlook works on my wife account, but not on mine (we have the same config for mails), so I think that there is some problem with IMAP on MS side

[ghost]

Im using imap with outlook (web) a lot version ago....... im using;

• map-mail.outlook.com
• port 993
• SSL

Cheked email just a minute with new 1.91 version under windows 8.1
Hope can help

[morvy]

strange behaviour here:
when set POP3 to check Outlook.com emails, every 15 minutes I get false "New message", I'm checking emails every minute, so it's every 15th check