How to set up Google Mail account in KMail?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Monday, 5 March 2018 16:23:23 GMT Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN wrote:
> 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.

I never get that far. I log in to Google, and immediately I'm sent back to 
the login screen. Again and again, ad nauseam.

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

That's a bit drastic. It sounds like creating a new user account in KDE and 
setting it all up again from scratch.

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

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Regards,
Peter.