Getting access to Gmail in Kmail

[Ianseeks]

On Thursday, 14 July 2022 12:58:39 BST rhkramer at gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, July 14, 2022 07:21:57 AM Stefano Crocco wrote:
> > > Access to my gmail account stopped a while ago but i've only just started
> > > to look into it.
> 
> This may be way off point.  I didn't try to carefully read your problem, but 
> I'll ask, are you aware of the changes made at google / gmail that now require 
> an application specific password to so that third party applications (e.g., 
> kmail) can access google / gmail?
> 
> I can't recite exactly what you have to do to create and use an aplication 
> specific password (which, btw, iirc, is all numeric) -- I think you have to do 
> something (in / at google) like enable 2FA (2 Factor Authrorization) and then 
> some other step lets you create an application specific password.

How/where do i create this "applicaiton specific password"?

> The change occurred this year, maybe either the end of March or the end of 
> May, although as sometimes seems to happen for google related things, the 
> change wasn't made simultaneously for all users -- i.e., some (but not all) 
> users may have been able to continue to use google / gmail with 3rd party 
> applications after that date.
> 
> (For me, I vaguely remember that the change for me occurred late in the day on 
> the deadline day -- or maybe early in the morning of the following day -- 
> kmail continued to work with gmail until the following morning.  
> 
> (BTW, I access gmail via pop3, not IMAP, but the change was supposedly made 
> for all of google, i.e. it should have affected both pop and IMAP (and whatever 
> else).)
> 
> (I should add that I did set up an application specific password and kmail via 
> pop (and smtp) continues to work for me.)

I can't undestand why that with one login/kmail account, it jumps to a Google/Akonadi page to verify it and works fine but on the other login/kmail account it doesn;t do the same thing

> Good luck!
> 
thanks

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