How to set up Google Mail account in KMail?

[Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN]

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.

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.

If this fails, Clear your computer of everything KMail, Kontact, Akonadi,
KDEPIM related, and try again.

This is how I've done it and it works on one of my computers, but not on
the other.

*Ovidiu - Florin BOGDAN*
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2018-03-05 17:20 GMT+02:00 Christopher Glasoe <crglasoe at gmail.com>:

> 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.
>
> --
>
> 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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