[kdepim-users] Kontact - KDE 4..9.1.: server for IMAP account refuses username and password.

[Bas Roufs]

Hello Andras and Everybody,

> If you want, try with another mail client to access the account through imap.
> I'd not be surprised if you run into the same problem.

Taking into this advice, I have tested three other clients, next to KMail:
+ Evolution and Thunderbird at Kubuntu 12.04;
+ The e-mail client of Android 4.0, at my mobile phone.
You are right: each of those three tests ended up in the  same problem.
A short look at the so-called "Google Product Forums" makes clear that
the problem  is wide spread, and that Google already works on it.
Below, you can find a copy of my report to that forum.

Hello Everybody,

ever since today, I experience difficulties to access the incoming
mail of GMAIL via IMAP - imap.gmail.com.

At my laptops, I work at the Linux distro Kubuntu 12.04, along with
KDE 4.9.1. The e-mail client I usually work with, is "KMail", a part
of the "Kontact" PIM suite. During about 3 years, I managed to work
quite well like this - until today.

In order to get more clarity about the problem, I have also tested 3
other mail clients:
+ Thunderbird and Evolution at Kubuntu, at one of my laptops;
+ the e-mail client of Android 4.0, at my mobile phone.

>From each of those 4 clients I get a similar message when trying to
set up an IMAP account:
"Unable to authenticate to IMAP server. Account exceeded command or
bandwith limits. (Failure.)"

Each of those 4 clients keep prompting for the password. But even when
giving in the correct one, a message like the one above keeps coming
back.

Taking into account the outcome of my experiments, as well as feedback
elsewhere at the internet, the problem must be some complication at
the servers of Google. Be so kind to fix the problem or to make some
"workaround" as soon as you can. Thanks, respectfully yours,,

Bas Roufs.
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