On Friday, August 16, 2019 12:24:20 PM EDT Robert-André Mauchin wrote: > On Friday, 16 August 2019 01:52:39 CEST Garry Williams wrote: > > I cannot retrieve mail on Gmail (using IMAP) in Kmail any more. This > > has worked for many years, but it failing now with [sniip] > You need to use App passwords as described in Richard's link. > https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en > > Previously only needed for sending mail (smtp password) but now needed for > receiving (imap) too because they disabled Oauth for KMail. > > But to make it work, you need to change a couple of settings. > > in Configure>Receiving>Modify... > Go to the Advanced Tab > In Connection Settings, don't use Auto-detect with "Gmail" as Authentication. > Instead use: > > Encryption: SSL/TLS > Port: 993 > Authentication: NTLM > > And use this with your App password given by Google. Very nice. I tried the app password before posting here and it failed. The key was not to use Authentication: Gmail. NTLM was *not* offered here. I chose PLAIN and I'm back to normal receiving mail. This answer is a test of sending. :-) -- Garry T. Williams _______________________________________________ kde mailing list -- kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
