Google recently made all Gmail accounts default to ‘always use HTTPS’ - meaning that all web mail sessions are now forced to use https for both logging in and while viewing and composing emails. While this is great for security and a welcome change, the Gmail Notifier application for windows by default uses plain old HTTP to check for new messages. Once HTTPS is enabled it can no longer connect.
The solution for this is a registry patch, provided by Google themselves which changes the URL the notifier uses.
The patch is available at direct from Google and the related support article is located here.
I’m not sure why they haven’t simply added this as an option within the application, or designed it to autodetect.
