A Williams 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...
I've also got another IMAP account which is behaving a little oddly. I
access it both with Seamonkey mail and through a webmail interface (the
webmail interface is the most recent version of Horde). Suddenly, any
time I attempt to use the webmail interface from Seamonkey, it is
reporting that the browser doesn't support javascript or javascript is
disabled. I've not changed anything, and I was able to access the
webmail interface after the upgrade to 2.49.1. I can still access it
correctly in Chromium or Firefox - its only Seamonkey that has the
problem.
I'm using the official Arch Linux Seamonkey build:
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.1
Build identifier: 20171107205422
Paul.
As you can see from the User Agent, I'm still on 2.46.
I have two ISPs, my "normal" one and one for emergencies when the
"normal" one does not work for some reason (they are totally seperate).
Yesterday I had a problem and switched to the backup ISP.
My gmail access is via IMAP and gmail complained almost immediately,
saying someone had access to my password and asking if this was really
me. The attempted access was blocked.
In my case the messages (and the access) were legitimate.
That sounds exactly like the problem I had. So at least its not
something in 2.49.1 - just gmail doing strange things. I had another
strange problem with Gmail a few days ago - I had been logged into my
gmail account both on the desktop upstairs and on my laptop. Just as I
was getting ready to pack up and go to bed, I got a pop-up from gmail
telling me to log in via the web. Didn't make much sense, since I hadn't
got one of the "someone tried your password" messages this time. But I
couldn't access Gmail from the laptop at all, so I fired up the browser
and did as asked. That worked, but I still couldn't use the email client
to log in to gmail.
After going back and forwards a few times, I gave up and went to check
the desktop. Which had exactly the same problem. And also didn't want to
clear. After a lot of struggling, I got gmail to accept al login from
Thunderbird (which I had configured but hadn't used in months). Still
couldn't get anywhere with Seamonkey mail. In the end I gave up and went
to bed.
Next morning the problem had gone - Seamonkey mail was working again. So
whatever gmail broke, they fixed. For the moment at least....
Paul.
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