Comment 4 for bug 62349

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.