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.

Some notes:

• 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:
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.labels
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.modify

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• Now I need to do this for my Google Workspace account too…