Gmail

[rhkramer at gmail.com]

On Thursday, June 02, 2022 10:58:02 AM Ian Douglas wrote:
> Is there a solution for Gmail?

What is the problem -- are you having trouble due to the recent change at 
Google (to, if I get the words right, require Oauth2 authentication)?

If so, the alternate is to set up an application specific password.  I did that 
this morning, and my old version of kmail (version 1.13.7 for kde 4.8.4 on 
Debian Wheezy) works again using pop3 (it stopped working around 8:30am this 
morning).

I had a little trouble setting it up until I got to the right place in google 
-- I first tried to change the settings on the gmail webclient page but 
couldn't find the correct options.  Then logged in on google.com and did find 
the correct option (Security), and then, in general terms, turned on 2 step 
verification and eventually found the option to set up an application specific 
password.

I then entered that in place of the old passwords in kmail.  (I don't think it 
stated it -- I wasn't sure whether to enter the spaces as part of the password 
or not -- I did, and that worked.)