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Gmail Notifier HTTPs Patch

July 22, 2009 by Raj Agrawal 2 Comments

Using Gmail Notifier With HTTPs Authentication

Google is well known for it’s “privacy policies” and also for it’s honest “Sophistication, with simplicity”. Gmail Notifier, a Google product, is a tiny freeware application which provides an instant notification regarding new email.

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Gmail notifier login screen

Almost all the Gmail users are aware that Google has introduced an option to access Gmail with more security i.e users can login to their mailbox with https://gmail.com rather than with the regular http://gmail.com. Now, Gmail Notifier users have noticed that after setting the Gmail access through https, they were no longer able to get new notification through Gmail Notifier. The obvious reason is that Gmail Notifier, by default, is designed to access the mailbox through basic http authentication and as a result Gmail Notifier fails to provide you new email notifications.
To make the Gmail Notifier work with the new HTTPS setting, you’ll need to install a small registry patch available on the following link:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=9429

If you have any questions, your answer is just a comment away.

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About Raj Agrawal

A professional Mobile Software Engineer by profession, an M.C.A and M.C.P by qualification. A guitar hobbyist and an appreciator of Indian classical, folk, metal and baroque music.

Comments

  1. stoshev says

    December 25, 2009 at 5:55 PM

    I want to quote your post in my blog. It can?
    And you et an account on Twitter?

    Reply
  2. Raj says

    December 26, 2009 at 12:29 AM

    Hi Stoshev, you can certainly quote this post on your blog. You can follow me @ http://twitter.com/upcomingtechs

    Reply

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