the google gods must be crazy

Two days ago, I got the dreaded “lockdown in sector 4 (failure)” gmail error when I tried to IMAP.  I suspect that this happened to be related to a Thunderbird offline folder sync I was doing shortly before getting on my plane trip to Orlando, FL.

On the third day (over 24 hours after the incident), I made a last ditch effort of just disabling the IMAP from within Gmail.  Sure enough, that fixed it about an hour or so later when I checked it.

I got a similar Gmail lockout a few months ago, that time for what I suspected was my Greasemonkey tomfoolery.  In that case, however, I was back in my account in a matter of hours, not days.  :/