gmail account troubles

[Ianseeks]

On Saturday, 1 September 2018 16:03:17 BST Andreas Hencke wrote:
> Am Samstag, 1. September 2018, 11:14:36 CEST schrieb Ianseeks:
> > Make sure your Authentication is not set to GMAIL - mine uses PLAIN in order
> > to work.
> 
> In my case “auto detect" and “Authentication” are greyed out so I can t change 
> anything. Even the password is greyed out (there are only lots of dots 
> visible) so that I' m not able to retype the PW.
> 
> How to change that? Or do I have to delete and reinstall the gmail account?
> 
> Regards 
> 
> Andreas
As far as I know it shouldn't be greyed out, are your user name and password set up okay for that account? Settings/Configure Kmail/Accounts/Receiving/Advanced is where they should be enabled. 
There is a situation where you might get a dialog from Google asking to allow Akonadi access to your google account, i made the mistake of accepting that and then thats when i stopped getting emails. I then went to my google account via webmail and remove Akonadi from the permitted apps and then set my Authentication to PLAIN and its worked fine since.  

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