diff --git a/internal/httpapi/auth_handlers.go b/internal/httpapi/auth_handlers.go
index 57d6508..7ab3ab0 100644
--- a/internal/httpapi/auth_handlers.go
+++ b/internal/httpapi/auth_handlers.go
@@ -573,6 +573,34 @@ func inboxName(locale string) string {
 // 11:49" long after the line explaining it has gone, which tells an operator that
 // something broke and gives them no way to find out what. The row outlives the
 // container; Indstillinger → Fejl is where it is read.
+// upstream reports a failure that came from somebody else's service.
+//
+// Separate from `internal` because the cause is different and so is the fix: a 500
+// is this server broken, and this is Google — or whoever — saying no. The status
+// says so (502), and the message is passed through rather than replaced, because
+// "invalid_grant" or "insufficient authentication scopes" is the whole diagnosis
+// and a generic sentence in its place throws it away.
+//
+// It is recorded like a 500 for exactly the reason the error log exists: a Gmail
+// sync that has been failing for a week is invisible otherwise. The background job
+// writes a log line the next restart erases, and nobody is watching the one screen
+// that would have said so.
+func (s *Server) upstream(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, code, what string, err error) {
+	s.log.Warn(what, "err", err)
+
+	userID := ""
+	if u := userFrom(r.Context()); u != nil {
+		userID = u.ID
+	}
+	s.db.RecordError(r.Context(), store.ServerError{
+		Method: r.Method, Path: r.URL.Path, Status: http.StatusBadGateway,
+		What: what, Message: err.Error(), UserID: userID,
+		RequestID: middleware.GetReqID(r.Context()),
+	})
+
+	writeError(w, http.StatusBadGateway, code, err.Error())
+}
+
 func (s *Server) internal(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, what string, err error) {
 	s.log.Error(what, "err", err)
 
diff --git a/internal/httpapi/errors.go b/internal/httpapi/errors.go
index 7295314..1be61b5 100644
--- a/internal/httpapi/errors.go
+++ b/internal/httpapi/errors.go
@@ -51,6 +51,13 @@ const (
 	// is not "that already exists" either, and it is the one refusal on the user
 	// page that a person needs explained rather than merely reported.
 	CodeLastAdmin = "last_admin"
+
+	// Gmail said no. Its own words are the diagnosis — "invalid_grant",
+	// "insufficient authentication scopes" — and they are useless behind a generic
+	// sentence, which is what `internal_error` gave: a person clicked Fetch now,
+	// read "something went wrong", and had nowhere to go. The interface wraps the
+	// message in one that says where it came from.
+	CodeGmailFailed = "gmail_failed"
 )
 
 // errLastAdmin is returned to the caller that already wrote the response, so it
diff --git a/internal/httpapi/gmail_handlers.go b/internal/httpapi/gmail_handlers.go
index 4979029..c1df767 100644
--- a/internal/httpapi/gmail_handlers.go
+++ b/internal/httpapi/gmail_handlers.go
@@ -150,6 +150,9 @@ func (s *Server) handleGmailCallback(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		return
 	}
 
+	// Best effort: a mailbox that connects but cannot name itself is still
+	// connected, and the status endpoint asks again when it finds no address —
+	// so this failing is a delay rather than a dead end.
 	email, err := gmail.NewClient(token.AccessToken).Profile(r.Context())
 	if err != nil {
 		s.log.Warn("gmail profile", "err", err)
@@ -184,7 +187,7 @@ func (s *Server) handleGmailSyncNow(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 
 	created, err := s.SyncGmail(r.Context(), user)
 	if err != nil {
-		writeError(w, http.StatusBadGateway, CodeInternal, err.Error())
+		s.upstream(w, r, CodeGmailFailed, "sync gmail", err)
 		return
 	}
 	writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, map[string]int{"created": created})
@@ -425,3 +428,39 @@ func (s *Server) handleSetGmailClient(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	}
 	w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNoContent)
 }
+
+// gmailProfile fetches the mailbox address and stores it, refreshing the access
+// token first if it has expired.
+//
+// Shared by the connect callback and the status endpoint. The callback is the
+// natural place to learn the address, and it is also the one moment that cannot be
+// retried — so the status endpoint asks again when it finds nothing, and the answer
+// corrects itself on the next look.
+func (s *Server) gmailProfile(ctx context.Context, user *store.User, settings map[string]any) (string, error) {
+	str := func(key string) string {
+		v, _ := settings[key].(string)
+		return v
+	}
+
+	access := str("access_token")
+	expires, _ := settings["expires_at"].(float64)
+	if access == "" || int64(expires) <= time.Now().Unix() {
+		token, err := s.gmailConfig(ctx).Refresh(ctx, str("refresh_token"))
+		if err != nil {
+			return "", err
+		}
+		access = token.AccessToken
+		settings["access_token"] = access
+		settings["expires_at"] = token.ExpiresAt.Unix()
+	}
+
+	email, err := gmail.NewClient(access).Profile(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	settings["email"] = email
+	if err := s.db.SetUserSettings(ctx, user.ID, "gmail", settings); err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return email, nil
+}
diff --git a/internal/httpapi/gmail_test.go b/internal/httpapi/gmail_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..74ed08d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/httpapi/gmail_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+package httpapi
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/kristianwind/verdande/internal/config"
+)
+
+// A Gmail failure has to survive being reported.
+//
+// It used to be hidden twice over. The handler answered 502 with the code
+// `internal_error`, which the interface maps to "something went wrong" — so
+// Google's own words, the only thing that says what to do, were replaced by a
+// sentence that says nothing. And `writeError` records nothing, so the error log
+// was empty: a person clicked Fetch now, read a generic failure, and there was
+// nowhere to look it up afterwards.
+func TestAGmailFailureSaysWhatGmailSaidAndIsRecorded(t *testing.T) {
+	// A Gmail that refuses, the way an expired grant does.
+	google := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		http.Error(w, `{"error":"invalid_grant"}`, http.StatusBadRequest)
+	}))
+	defer google.Close()
+
+	ts := newTestServerWith(t, func(cfg *config.Config) {
+		cfg.GmailClientID = "test-client"
+		cfg.GmailClientSecret = "test-secret"
+	})
+	ts.bootstrap(t)
+
+	user, err := ts.db.UserByEmail(t.Context(), "kristian@example.dk")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	// Connected, with a refresh token that will be refused.
+	if err := ts.db.SetUserSettings(t.Context(), user.ID, "gmail", map[string]any{
+		"refresh_token": "spent", "trigger": "starred",
+	}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	resp, body := ts.do(t, "POST", "/api/v1/gmail/sync", nil)
+	if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusBadGateway {
+		t.Fatalf("sync: status %d, want 502 — this is Gmail saying no, not this server breaking",
+			resp.StatusCode)
+	}
+	if body["code"] != "gmail_failed" {
+		t.Errorf("code = %v, want gmail_failed — `internal_error` is mapped to a generic "+
+			"sentence, which throws the diagnosis away", body["code"])
+	}
+	if msg, _ := body["error"].(string); msg == "" {
+		t.Error("the message is empty; Gmail's own words are the whole diagnosis")
+	}
+
+	// And it is in the error log, which is the point of having one: a sync that has
+	// been failing for a week is invisible otherwise.
+	_, logged := ts.do(t, "GET", "/api/v1/errors", nil)
+	rows, _ := logged["errors"].([]any)
+	if len(rows) == 0 {
+		t.Fatal("nothing was recorded; the failure is as invisible as it was before")
+	}
+	row := rows[0].(map[string]any)
+	if row["what"] != "sync gmail" {
+		t.Errorf("what = %v, want \"sync gmail\"", row["what"])
+	}
+	if row["status"] != float64(http.StatusBadGateway) {
+		t.Errorf("status = %v, want 502", row["status"])
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/httpapi/integrations_handlers.go b/internal/httpapi/integrations_handlers.go
index 02e5a5f..008407d 100644
--- a/internal/httpapi/integrations_handlers.go
+++ b/internal/httpapi/integrations_handlers.go
@@ -379,9 +379,27 @@ func (s *Server) handleGetGmail(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		v, _ := values[key].(string)
 		return v
 	}
+	// The mailbox address, fetched again if it is missing.
+	//
+	// It is stored at connect time, and the call that fetches it can fail — a
+	// slow token, a scope Google had not applied yet. That failure used to be a
+	// log line and an empty string, so the page said "an unknown account" and went
+	// on saying it forever: the only way back was to disconnect and reconnect,
+	// which nobody would guess. Asking again here costs one request on a page
+	// nobody opens often, and it means the wrong answer lasts until the next look
+	// rather than until somebody reconnects.
+	email := str("email")
+	if email == "" && str("refresh_token") != "" {
+		if fetched, err := s.gmailProfile(r.Context(), userFrom(r.Context()), values); err == nil {
+			email = fetched
+		} else {
+			s.log.Warn("gmail profile", "err", err)
+		}
+	}
+
 	writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, gmailSettings{
 		Connected: str("refresh_token") != "",
-		Email:     str("email"),
+		Email:     email,
 		Trigger:   str("trigger"),
 		Label:     str("label"),
 	})
diff --git a/internal/i18n/untranslated_test.go b/internal/i18n/untranslated_test.go
index c68d2a4..6622c26 100644
--- a/internal/i18n/untranslated_test.go
+++ b/internal/i18n/untranslated_test.go
@@ -20,6 +20,56 @@ import (
 // away whatever letters it happens to use. A word list rather than a language
 // detector: this repository ships one static binary, and a list of thirty common
 // words catches the sentences a person would actually write.
+// The same words, inside the code rather than the markup.
+//
+// `confirm()`, `alert()` and `app.toast()` take a string argument, and a string
+// argument lives in the script block where the scanner above never looks. Six of
+// them survived the whole i18n sweep that way — every destructive confirmation in
+// the app, which is the worst possible set to leave in one language, because it is
+// the text somebody reads in the half-second before they agree to lose something.
+func TestNoDanishProseInDialogsAndToasts(t *testing.T) {
+	// The argument of one of the three, quoted or backticked. Deliberately narrow:
+	// a general scan of every string literal in a Svelte script block would drown
+	// in class names, keys and query fragments.
+	call := regexp.MustCompile(`(?:confirm|alert|app\.toast)\(\s*['` + "`" + `]([^'` + "`" + `]{4,})['` + "`" + `]`)
+	danish := regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)\b(og|er|ikke|det|den|der|til|kan|som|har|med|af|en|et|du|din|dine|vises|ingen|nyere|fundet|ude|valgt|slettet|gemt|opgave|projekt|indstillinger|fjern|opret|vælg|luk|tilføj|ryd|gem|slet|omdøb|bliver|holder|alle)\b`)
+
+	var found []string
+	root := filepath.Join("..", "..", "web", "src")
+	err := filepath.Walk(root, func(path string, info os.FileInfo, err error) error {
+		if err != nil || info.IsDir() {
+			return err
+		}
+		if !strings.HasSuffix(path, ".svelte") && !strings.HasSuffix(path, ".js") {
+			return nil
+		}
+		if strings.Contains(path, "locales") {
+			return nil
+		}
+		body, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		rel, _ := filepath.Rel(root, path)
+		for _, m := range call.FindAllStringSubmatch(string(body), -1) {
+			if danish.MatchString(m[1]) {
+				found = append(found, rel+": "+m[1])
+			}
+		}
+		return nil
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("walk %s: %v", root, err)
+	}
+
+	if len(found) > 0 {
+		t.Errorf("%d dialog or toast string(s) are written in Danish inside the code. "+
+			"They are what somebody reads before agreeing to lose something, and an "+
+			"English interface shows them in Danish:\n  %s",
+			len(found), strings.Join(found, "\n  "))
+	}
+}
+
 func TestNoDanishProseOutsideTheDictionaries(t *testing.T) {
 	// Text nodes of three characters or more, and the three attributes a person
 	// reads. Anything inside {…} is already an expression — usually a t() call —
diff --git a/web/src/lib/api.js b/web/src/lib/api.js
index 36dfc2b..87280d5 100644
--- a/web/src/lib/api.js
+++ b/web/src/lib/api.js
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ const MESSAGES = {
 	ai_not_configured: 'error.aiNotConfigured',
 	totp_not_enabled: 'error.totpNotEnabled',
 	inbox_protected: 'error.inboxProtected',
+	// The fallback for when Gmail refused and said nothing usable. When it did say
+	// something, `humanMessage` quotes it instead — see below.
+	gmail_failed: 'error.gmailRefused',
 	last_admin: 'error.lastAdmin'
 };
 
@@ -67,6 +70,15 @@ const MESSAGES = {
  */
 export function humanMessage(err) {
 	if (!(err instanceof ApiError)) return t(MESSAGES.offline);
+
+	// Gmail's own words are the diagnosis — "invalid_grant", "insufficient
+	// authentication scopes" — and a generic sentence in their place throws away
+	// the only thing that says what to do. Wrapped so it reads as a quotation
+	// rather than as a stray English string in a Danish interface.
+	if (err.code === 'gmail_failed' && err.message) {
+		return t('error.gmailSaid', { what: err.message });
+	}
+
 	const key = MESSAGES[err.code];
 	if (key) return t(key);
 	return err.message ?? t(MESSAGES.internal_error);
diff --git a/web/src/lib/components/BoardView.svelte b/web/src/lib/components/BoardView.svelte
index 53c215c..c62e587 100644
--- a/web/src/lib/components/BoardView.svelte
+++ b/web/src/lib/components/BoardView.svelte
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
 			);
 		} catch {
 			app.replace(id, previous);
-			app.toast('Kunne ikke flytte opgaven.');
+			app.toast(t('task.moveFailed'));
 		}
 	}
 </script>
diff --git a/web/src/lib/components/TaskDetail.svelte b/web/src/lib/components/TaskDetail.svelte
index aaf710f..a41f347 100644
--- a/web/src/lib/components/TaskDetail.svelte
+++ b/web/src/lib/components/TaskDetail.svelte
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@
 	}
 
 	async function removeComment(comment) {
-		if (!confirm('Slet kommentaren?')) return;
+		if (!confirm(t('detail.deleteComment'))) return;
 		const previous = comments;
 		comments = comments.filter((c) => c.id !== comment.id);
 		try {
diff --git a/web/src/lib/locales/da.js b/web/src/lib/locales/da.js
index e6352ad..0daef78 100644
--- a/web/src/lib/locales/da.js
+++ b/web/src/lib/locales/da.js
@@ -646,5 +646,24 @@ export const da = {
 	'update.waiting': 'Venter på at serveren kommer op igen…',
 	'update.stillDown': 'Serveren er ikke kommet op endnu. Kig i panelet.',
 	'update.notConfigured':
-		'Denne instans kan ikke genstarte sig selv: {missing} er ikke sat. En container kan ikke udskifte sit eget image — panelet gør arbejdet, og det her er kun måden at bede om det.'
+		'Denne instans kan ikke genstarte sig selv: {missing} er ikke sat. En container kan ikke udskifte sit eget image — panelet gør arbejdet, og det her er kun måden at bede om det.',
+
+	'error.gmailSaid': 'Gmail svarede: {what}',
+
+	'error.gmailRefused': 'Gmail afviste kaldet. Prøv at forbinde postkassen igen.',
+
+	'int.newAddressQuestion': 'Ny adresse? Mail til den gamle bliver afvist.',
+	'int.copied': 'Kopieret.',
+	'int.copyFailed': 'Kunne ikke kopiere — markér teksten i stedet.',
+
+	'detail.deleteComment': 'Slet kommentaren?',
+	'int.disconnectQuestion': 'Afbryd forbindelsen til Gmail? Tokens bliver glemt.',
+	'int.newLinkQuestion': 'Nyt feed-link? Alle eksisterende abonnementer holder op med at virke.',
+	'data.deleteTemplate': 'Slet skabelonen "{name}"?',
+	'tokens.revokeQuestion': 'Tilbagekald "{name}"? Alt, der bruger den, holder op med at virke.',
+	'account.signOutThisDevice': 'Det er denne enhed. Du bliver logget ud.',
+
+	'project.deleteQuestion': 'Slet "{name}" med alle dets opgaver?',
+	'project.deleteRecoverable':
+		'Det havner i papirkurven og kan hentes tilbage under Indstillinger → Data og skabeloner i {days} dage.'
 };
diff --git a/web/src/lib/locales/en.js b/web/src/lib/locales/en.js
index 21276b9..7dd3e94 100644
--- a/web/src/lib/locales/en.js
+++ b/web/src/lib/locales/en.js
@@ -641,5 +641,24 @@ export const en = {
 	'update.waiting': 'Waiting for the server to come back…',
 	'update.stillDown': 'The server has not come back yet. Have a look in the panel.',
 	'update.notConfigured':
-		'This instance cannot restart itself: {missing} are not set. A container cannot replace its own image — the panel does the work, and this is only the way to ask.'
+		'This instance cannot restart itself: {missing} are not set. A container cannot replace its own image — the panel does the work, and this is only the way to ask.',
+
+	'error.gmailSaid': 'Gmail said: {what}',
+
+	'error.gmailRefused': 'Gmail refused the call. Try connecting the mailbox again.',
+
+	'int.newAddressQuestion': 'A new address? Mail to the old one is refused.',
+	'int.copied': 'Copied.',
+	'int.copyFailed': 'Could not copy — select the text instead.',
+
+	'detail.deleteComment': 'Delete the comment?',
+	'int.disconnectQuestion': 'Disconnect Gmail? The tokens are forgotten.',
+	'int.newLinkQuestion': 'A new feed link? Every existing subscription stops working.',
+	'data.deleteTemplate': 'Delete the template "{name}"?',
+	'tokens.revokeQuestion': 'Revoke "{name}"? Everything using it stops working.',
+	'account.signOutThisDevice': 'That is this device. You will be signed out.',
+
+	'project.deleteQuestion': 'Delete "{name}" with all its tasks?',
+	'project.deleteRecoverable':
+		'It goes to the trash and can be restored under Settings → Data and templates for {days} days.'
 };
diff --git a/web/src/routes/indstillinger/+page.svelte b/web/src/routes/indstillinger/+page.svelte
index e8a3f7b..2b7c917 100644
--- a/web/src/routes/indstillinger/+page.svelte
+++ b/web/src/routes/indstillinger/+page.svelte
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@
 
 	async function endSession(session) {
 		if (session.current) {
-			if (!confirm('Det er denne enhed. Du bliver logget ud.')) return;
+			if (!confirm(t('account.signOutThisDevice'))) return;
 			await api.endSession(session.id);
 			// A full reload rather than clearing the store by hand: the session is
 			// gone, so every open socket and every cached answer in this tab is now
diff --git a/web/src/routes/indstillinger/data/+page.svelte b/web/src/routes/indstillinger/data/+page.svelte
index b3b0034..03adf8b 100644
--- a/web/src/routes/indstillinger/data/+page.svelte
+++ b/web/src/routes/indstillinger/data/+page.svelte
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
 	}
 
 	async function deleteTemplate(template) {
-		if (!confirm(`Slet skabelonen "${template.name}"?`)) return;
+		if (!confirm(t('data.deleteTemplate', { name: template.name }))) return;
 
 		const previous = templates;
 		templates = templates.filter((t) => t.id !== template.id);
diff --git a/web/src/routes/indstillinger/integrationer/+page.svelte b/web/src/routes/indstillinger/integrationer/+page.svelte
index 40ee888..6f02e9c 100644
--- a/web/src/routes/indstillinger/integrationer/+page.svelte
+++ b/web/src/routes/indstillinger/integrationer/+page.svelte
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
 	}
 
 	async function disconnectGmail() {
-		if (!confirm('Afbryd forbindelsen til Gmail? Tokens bliver glemt.')) return;
+		if (!confirm(t('int.disconnectQuestion'))) return;
 		try {
 			await api.disconnectGmail();
 			gmail = await api.getGmail();
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@
 	});
 
 	async function rotateFeed() {
-		if (!confirm('Nyt feed-link? Alle eksisterende abonnementer holder op med at virke.')) return;
+		if (!confirm(t('int.newLinkQuestion'))) return;
 		try {
 			feedURL = (await api.rotateFeed()).url;
 		} catch (e) {
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@
 	}
 
 	async function rotateMail() {
-		if (!confirm('Ny adresse? Mail til den gamle bliver afvist.')) return;
+		if (!confirm(t('int.newAddressQuestion'))) return;
 		try {
 			const r = await api.rotateMailAddress();
 			mailAddress = r.address;
@@ -175,9 +175,9 @@
 	async function copy(text) {
 		try {
 			await navigator.clipboard.writeText(text);
-			app.toast('Kopieret.');
+			app.toast(t('int.copied'));
 		} catch {
-			app.toast('Kunne ikke kopiere — markér teksten i stedet.');
+			app.toast(t('int.copyFailed'));
 		}
 	}
 </script>
diff --git a/web/src/routes/indstillinger/tokens/+page.svelte b/web/src/routes/indstillinger/tokens/+page.svelte
index 99d09c7..1479194 100644
--- a/web/src/routes/indstillinger/tokens/+page.svelte
+++ b/web/src/routes/indstillinger/tokens/+page.svelte
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
 		} catch {
 			// Insecure context, or permission refused. The token is on screen and
 			// selectable, so this is a convenience that failed, not the feature.
-			app.toast('Kunne ikke kopiere — markér teksten i stedet.');
+			app.toast(t('int.copyFailed'));
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -69,12 +69,12 @@
 			await navigator.clipboard.writeText(connectorURL);
 			connectorCopied = true;
 		} catch {
-			app.toast('Kunne ikke kopiere — markér teksten i stedet.');
+			app.toast(t('int.copyFailed'));
 		}
 	}
 
 	async function revoke(token) {
-		if (!confirm(`Tilbagekald "${token.name}"? Alt, der bruger den, holder op med at virke.`))
+		if (!confirm(t('tokens.revokeQuestion', { name: token.name })))
 			return;
 
 		const previous = tokens;
diff --git a/web/src/routes/projekt/[id]/+page.svelte b/web/src/routes/projekt/[id]/+page.svelte
index 676e3cc..c838ae8 100644
--- a/web/src/routes/projekt/[id]/+page.svelte
+++ b/web/src/routes/projekt/[id]/+page.svelte
@@ -188,9 +188,9 @@
 	async function remove() {
 		const days = 30;
 		const confirmed = confirm(
-			`Slet "${project.name}" med alle dets opgaver?\n\n` +
-				`Det havner i papirkurven og kan hentes tilbage under ` +
-				`Indstillinger → Data og skabeloner i ${days} dage.`
+			t('project.deleteQuestion', { name: projectName(project) }) +
+				'\n\n' +
+				t('project.deleteRecoverable', { days })
 		);
 		if (!confirmed) return;