connecting to GMail imap accounts and "akonadi resources for google services"
Daniel Vrátil
dvratil at kde.org
Thu Apr 27 14:11:55 BST 2017
On Thursday, April 27, 2017 2:58:10 PM CEST René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Thursday April 27 2017 14:14:02 Daniel Vrátil wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> >You should not have to copy or paste anything, the authentication should
> >automatically get the code and proceed.
> >
> >Make sure the SASL plugin for XOAUTH is installed properly (check if you
> >can see kdexoauth2 in "pluginviewer-c" output (or "saslpluginviewer -c")).
> Hmm,
>
> %> pluginviewer -c
> ...
> Plugin "kdexoauth2" [loaded], API version: 4
> SASL mechanism: XOAUTH2, best SSF: 0
> security flags: NO_ANONYMOUS|PASS_CREDENTIALS
> features: WANT_CLIENT_FIRST|PROXY_AUTHENTICATION
>
> What could be the name for the package in question?
>
> When I (re)start akonadi from a terminal I see this when I hit enter or
> escape in the final dialog that keeps offering me a code to enter
> somewhere:
>
> [SASL-XOAUTH2] - Requesting authID![SASL-XOAUTH2] - Requesting token
> ![SASL-XOAUTH2] - filling prompts
> ![SASL-XOAUTH2] - Requesting authID![SASL-XOAUTH2] - Requesting token
> ![SASL-XOAUTH2] - Requesting authID![SASL-XOAUTH2] - Requesting token
> ![SASL-XOAUTH2] - filling prompts
> ![SASL-XOAUTH2] - Requesting authID![SASL-XOAUTH2] - Requesting token
Hmm, maybe you are hit by the migration issue: try the steps described in the
comment here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/66vwua/
two_issues_after_upgrading_kmail_and_akregator_to/dgloqzv/?
st=j20fgmhg&sh=140669fa
>
> >In 5.5 IMAP will always use the new XOAUTH authentication for Gmail.
>
> Could it be that this requires GMail to NOT be configured to allow legacy
> clients? That'd be a big no-go for me...
Nope, you can still have "unsecure apps" enabled and they will work.
Dan
>
> R
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