Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Paul Marwick wrote:
I've been using Seamonkey mail as my primary email client for a long
time. My main email account is a gmail account, which has been in
existence for a long time as well.
Twice since I installed 2.49.1, I've had messages from Gmail saying
that someone tried to use my password from an unknown device. In both
cases, Seamonkey had been running against the gmail account for a
period of hours at least. One instance was my laptop, then today I
got a similar warning regarding my desktop machine (which runs
Seamonkey mail all the time).
In both instances, once I confirmed that the IP used for the
"attempt" was my own IP, things have gone back to normal.
Is anyone else seeing this sort of error? It may be that Google has
done something to change its security, but it does seem odd that I've
only seen the error since I installed the latest version, and it also
seems odd that Google can't identify the device, even though it
normally shows that I'm accessing the account from a Linux based
machine. At the time, the only thing accessing the Gmail account
would have been Seamonkey...
...
Google has been pulling this crap for months, probably over a year
now. I routinely clear cookies automatically on shutdown, and
sometimes manually during a session, and Google uses cookies to
recognize your device. So every time I clear cookies, it thinks I'm
logging in with a new device and wants me to prove I'm me.
Interesting. I had no idea that the mail client used cookies at all. I
was able to log in using the web browser the first time it happened. It
was also the fact that normally when I get emails noting a login from
another device they are usually able to identify the OS, which didn't
happen in this case - it was just "unknown device". Though most of the
warning messages about logging in from other devices would apply to a
web login, not an IMAP connection from a mail client.
In your case, I suspect the cookie had a time limit and expired. You
can confirm/refute that by inspecting the cookie the next time you log
in.
Thanks. I'll do some more checking. I've no idea what cookies are kept
for google - I use the search engine, Google+ (not my favourite thing,
but its the only way I can keep up with an Android app that I use) as
well as maps and Google Keep. So I guess there are probably a heap of
cookies in there. No idea what their expiry is either.
Paul.
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