Ubuntu
gnome-gmail package

  1. Bug #882337
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 882337

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David Steele (daves) wrote :

There is a language dependency in the code. For attachments, the software navigates to the "Drafts" folder as the place to store the outgoing message. The name of the Drafts folder in Gmail is dependent on the language setting. Since your error message is in English, I'm guessing that your Gmail account is set to German. See http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2970810&group_id=277145&atid=1176979 for a discussion of the issue.

To fix, set Ubuntu and Gmail to the same language. Alternately, you may be able to add "LANG=de" at the front of the Exec line in /usr/share/applications/gnome-gmail.desktop. Or, brute force the "Drafts" string in /usr/bin/gnome-gmail (to "Entwürfe").

Google has recently provided an IMAP API extension that allows identification of the Drafts folder without translation support. That is on the wish list.