The Google Notifier is an application that shows you alerts in your menu bar, so you can see when you have new Gmail messages or upcoming Google Calendar events without having to open a web browser.
However, with the recent add of an option/security feature in Gmail to allow user to use HTTPS for the login and Gmail session, Gmail Notifier does not seems to cooperate well with this Gmail new security feature. Gmail Notifier constantly gives the following error message when users set their Gmail to use the "Always use HTTPS" option in Gmail Settings:
"An error has occurred.
Cannot connect to your mailbox.
Service temporarily unavailable"
Solution: Google has released a patch that fixes the problem (only for windows users. Mac OS X does not seem to experience this issue).
However, with the recent add of an option/security feature in Gmail to allow user to use HTTPS for the login and Gmail session, Gmail Notifier does not seems to cooperate well with this Gmail new security feature. Gmail Notifier constantly gives the following error message when users set their Gmail to use the "Always use HTTPS" option in Gmail Settings:
"An error has occurred.
Cannot connect to your mailbox.
Service temporarily unavailable"
Solution: Google has released a patch that fixes the problem (only for windows users. Mac OS X does not seem to experience this issue).
- Download the patch: http://www.google.com/mail/help/downloads/notifier_https.zip
- Open up the folder.
- Double-click on the file called notifier_https.reg to install it.
- Click 'yes' when you're asked to confirm if you want to add the information to the registry.
- Restart the Notifier and you are all set.
