When will akonadi work with Gmail?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday, 16 November 2019 13:44:52 GMT René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Saturday November 16 2019 12:58:13 Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> >Well I believe, Jesus, the original poster, would like to have details.
> 
> Me too, if not only for possible future reference when the subject comes up
> again on the generic ML.

Okay, well my starting position was with a single IMAP server on a LAN host, 
whose job is to fetchmail POP3 from my ISP and serve it to me here in IMAP. I 
had no other accounts unless you count Local Folders

First, create an app password for KMail. Go to https://support.google.com/
accounts/answer/185833?hl=en (I found this page by googling for "google app 
passwords"). Follow the instructions under Create & use App Passwords. At step 
4 I entered "KMail on Gentoo Linux". After step 6, Generate, copy the password 
they give you; you'll use it in KMail.

Next, in Configure KMail, create a new Receiving account by clicking Add and 
choosing Custom Account (if you don't choose Custom, you'll be sent through 
the standard, failing google process; you'll also finish up with gmail as your 
default outgoing server). Give it a Name in the General tab, and enter 
imap.googlemail.com as the IMAP server (not imap.gmail.com, which won't work 
until the legalities have been sorted out). Enter your gmail address as 
<user>@gmail.com, and paste in the password you Generated on google.com.

On the Advanced tab, choose SSL/TLS, port 993 and Plain authentication.

Save the account, and check that your outgoing accounts haven't been touched. 
You should now be able to connect to gmail.com.

This is a potted version of much fiddling about and appealing for help. Not 
much of this is my own work, so thanks are due to too many people to list.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.

Gentoo stable system, openrc-0.41.2
gcc 9.2.0, sys-kernel/gentoo-sources 4.19.82
QT 5.12.3, KDE frameworks 5.60.0, KDE plasma 5.16.5
KDE apps 19.04.3 incl KMail 19.04.3 (5.11.3), akonadi 19.04.3
dev-db/mariadb-10.2.22-r1, net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.24.2
x11-drivers/xf86-video-amdgpu 19.0.1
dev-libs/amdgpu-pro-opencl-19.30.838629