I have spoken with the author of gmailfs.

It seems that the packager never actually tested this package. There are
at least two fatal packaging bugs. (There may be more, but we know about
these two).

1. mount.gmailsfs needs to be in /sbin. (This is discussed earlier in
this thread.)

2. The error described by Lord Alba is due to libgmail not properly
parsing the response from gmail. In order to get rid of this bug, the
gmailfs author believes that at least version 0.1.5 of libgmail is
needed, whereas the package dependency listing requires only 0.0.8 or
later (and in fact the current kubuntu version is 0.1.4-2build1, which
does not meet the requirement of being >= 0.1.5).

So it seems that two things need to happen to fix this bug (which
currently renders the entire gmailfs package simply a waste of time and
space at the moment):

1. libgmail needs to be updated
2. the packaging for gmailfs needs to be fixed as described above

We don't know whether this will be sufficient to allow the (revised)
gmailfs package to be used, but it is certainly necessary.

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GmailFS won't mount
https://launchpad.net/bugs/62349

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