On Tue, 2021-10-26 at 17:57 -0700, Van Snyder wrote:
> Yesterday I started getting "OAuth2 Secret not found" pop-ups for
> gmail accounts.
> 
> At first, it's just a mostly-empty box with "Login to your Google
> account and accept conditions in order to access your mail account
> "gmail:gmail" (and similar messages for other gmail accounts).
> 
> There's a URL pane that briefly has a URL in it, but the "image" area
> in the bottom pane quickly fills with a "Sign in to googlle.com"
> image in which nothing works. When that happens, the URL is erased.
> Any keystroke, or a mouse click, erases that box. Pushing the
> "Cancel" button simply repeats. Closing the pop-up window makes it go
> away, until I try to read another message.
> 
> I was able to triple-click suffiently quickly to pick up the URL and
> paste it into my browser, where google asked me to allow Evolution to
> access my account. I clicked "Allow" and it put up another message
> that said "lease copy this code, switch to your application and paste
> it there:" and then 62 characters of gibberish that I assume is some
> kind of randomly-generated password.

I logged into my gmail accounts through Firefox. The security pages
insist Evolution can access them.

> 
> I have no idea where to paste that into Evolution. An offer to save a
> password in my keyring is not presented.
> 
> I tried pasting the gibberish into the password box in seahorse for
> that account, but it didn't change Evolution's behavior.
> 
> I'm using Evolution 3.38.3-1 on Debian Buster 10.
> 
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