[kde-linux] Why is KMail so bad with GMail IMAP?

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 24 Nov 2007, Jim Philips wrote:
> I am a big user of GMail, so I was pleased when they announced IMAP
> support. But with KMail (KDE 3.5.8), the performance is just awful. If I
> click on my inbox to view my mail, I get something like:
>
> "Retrieving folder contents... Please wait."
>
> And it can stay like that for an hour. This has put me off of KMail and
> on to Thunderbird, where the performance is quite fast.  I am using the
> same settings in both clients. The instructions I used are at:
>
> https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77662&ctx=sibling
>
Just a guess - it sounds like an authentication problem to me.  Have you 
checked that your kmail account setup has your username and password, and is 
set to SSL (IIRC that's what gmail uses)?

Anne
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