How to set up Google Mail account in KMail?

[Christopher Glasoe]

>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.
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On Monday, March 5, 2018 8:58:08 AM CST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> I'm trying to link KMail2 to my gmail.com account but I'm just going round
> in circles.
> 
> I found I need an app password, but even after creating it google keeps
> going back again to get me to log in to my account there.
> 
> I also can't enter that password in KMail, as instructed by google, because
> it's greyed out (and shown as a single character).
> 
> What do I have to do, please?

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