While installing some software on my virtual machine i ran out of disk space so i went out googling and found a nice tutorial. I don’t really like doing this, kind of pasting someone else’s article but, since i keep this blog mainly as a reference to myself and i believe i will most surely need it later, i’ll explain here step by step what i did to accomplish this task.
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Month: January 2010
Solving Gmail IMAP error ‘Web login required (Failure)’
At work we have been using Google apps to host some of our customers domain e-mail accounts. The other day one of our customer collaborators complained that when accessing e-mails through IMAP (on Outlook 2007) he was getting the following error:
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After repeatedly checking his IMAP settings i decided it was not a problem with his settings so I looked around the web and found a quite dated tutorial (back from 2008). Since all my other approaches hadn’t worked i decided to try it, here’s the steps i followed:
- Logged in to the web portal with the gmail account that was returning that error
- Disabled both POP3 and IMAP functionality and logged off
- Logged in with a Administrator privileged account for that domain
- Goto “Domain Settings” and section “New Services and Pre-release Features”
- Disable “Automatically add new services when they become available” and “Enable pre-release features”
- Saved these changes
- Re-enabled “Automatically add new services when they become available” which was the one i wanted
- Saved these changes
- Logged off (as Administrator)
- Logged in to the web portal with the gmail account that was returning the error.
- Re-enabled both POP3 and IMAP functionality.
After this the user reported that IMAP was working again for him. It amazes me that such a simple and dated (almost 2 years now) solution like this has worked but luckily it did.