<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">KMail now registers to Google via OAuth. There is no need (anymore) to setup an application password from Google. You can't use it in KMail.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">You create an account by using the add account wizzard, and enter just your email address, then the OAuth windows will show, and you login to Google from there. Once you've given the Akonadi agent (KMail storage system) permissions in that web view, you can access your email.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">If this fails, Clear your computer of everything KMail, Kontact, Akonadi, KDEPIM related, and try again.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">This is how I've done it and it works on one of my computers, but not on the other.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font style="color:rgb(51,51,255)" size="2" face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>Ovidiu - Florin BOGDAN</b></font><div><font color="#3333ff" face="verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2"><a href="http://ovidiu.geekaliens.com" target="_blank">Geek<font color="#3333ff">A</font>liens.com</a></font><br></font></div><div><font color="#3333ff"><a href="http://kubuntu.org" target="_blank"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Kubuntu România</font></a><br></font></div><div><div><a href="http://www.google.com/profiles/ovidiu.b13" target="_blank"></a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-03-05 17:20 GMT+02:00 Christopher Glasoe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crglasoe@gmail.com" target="_blank">crglasoe@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">From experience you have to delete the account in Kmail and re-establish the Gamil account as a new Kmail account both send and receive sides. Also you have to use the password for Kmail generated within Google when you are using two-step authentication, not your Google password.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">On Monday, March 5, 2018 8:58:08 AM CST Peter Humphrey wrote:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> I'm trying to link KMail2 to my <a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a> account but I'm just going round</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> in circles.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> I found I need an app password, but even after creating it google keeps</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> going back again to get me to log in to my account there.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> I also can't enter that password in KMail, as instructed by google, because</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> it's greyed out (and shown as a single character).</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> What do I have to do, please?</p>
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