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--- pub:tech:lieer [2026/01/15 12:58] – james
+++ pub:tech:lieer [2026/01/16 07:12] (current) – james
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 # lieer and gmi
-I want to sync some gmail accounts to notmuch.  That's always been such a pain, but lieer apparently solves some of it.  I used Gemini to walk me through the setup.  It was painful.  In the end, I had to run with BROWSER=false in my env, then paste the URL that `gmi init` spit out, paste that into the edge browser (Firefox was no good, maybe because of my plugins or security settings) and do the flow that way.  It did finally work.
+I want to sync some gmail accounts to notmuch.  That's always been such a pain, but lieer apparently solves some of it.  I used Gemini to walk me through the setup.  It was painful.  In the end, I had to run with BROWSER=false in my env, then paste the URL that `gmi init` spit out, paste that into the Edge browser (Firefox was no good, maybe because of my plugins or security settings) and do the flow that way.  It did finally work.
+Although the binary is `gmi`, the Debian package is `lieer`.
+The config is in [my dotfiles](https://code.librehq.com/james/dotfiles).
 Some notes:
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   * Gemini recommended I configure the API access as a Desktop App, then when that didn't work it suggested Web App.  Desktop App was fine.  The Web App recommendation was a blind alley.
   * Publishing the app got me all kinds of warnings about verification that I ignored and all is well.
-  * I allowed these three scopes and only these three:
+  * I allowed these three scopes and only these three, which I had to paste into the manual entry box:
      * https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly
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      * https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.modify
-Scroll down and click Save.
+  * It is hard to find the menus the AI pointed me at. It got easier when I realized I could click the hamburger menu in the upper left, scroll all the way down and click "View All Products".  From there, I could ctrl-f.  That usually got me to the right place.
-  * Now I need to do this for my Google Workspace account too...
+  * I needed to do this for my Google Workspace account too.  That got easier when I flipped the user audience from external to internal.