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
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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. :-)