On Thu, Aug 30 2012, Tassilo Horn wrote:

> I wanted to try it out and added `gnus-notifications' to the relevant
> hook.  Now, after getting new mail, I'm queried for username/password
> for some google site.  I didn't remember the exact URL and it's not in
> *Messages*.  I tried with my google user account name tsdh80 + the
> corresponding password but was queried again.  Then I tried with my
> complete gmail email address as username and the same password, but
> still I was queried again.  So I've quit using C-g.
>
> Strangely, now when I hit `g` again, it asks for my gnome keyring
> password once, and then it shows the notifications as it should.

That's goole-contacts trying to get OAuth access. And it did get it
finally, so it stored the token in a GPG encrypted file (that's why
gnome-keyring's asking your password).

> So it seems to work, but for what was the first query loop good for
> then?

OAuth authentification, but the fact that it looped is strange.

Note that's nothing specific about gnus-notifications, more likely a
problem with google-contacts or oauth2.

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