• parens@programming.dev
      5·
      8 months ago

      Google eliminated IMAP years ago in favor of OAuth and their API. Thunderbird kept up, I think. KMail didn’t

    • Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
      1·
      8 months ago

      @TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.Gmail may have worked with Kmail occasionally in the past. I think sometimes that involved going back to your Google account and telling it to accept an “unsecure” app. To be honest, I wouldn’t do that for an email app.

      Elementary has the same problem with its mail app.

      • Bro666@lemmy.kde.socialM
        1·
        8 months ago

        Elementary has the same problem with its mail app.

        Because the problem is Google not wanting third party apps accessing their service.

        Edit: In other news, I just tried it and GMail works just fine with KMail. Setting up is a three step process and automatic most of the way.

        • Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
          1·
          8 months ago

          @Bro666 I tried it on Fedora 40 with Plasma 6. Don’t know if it’s broken there or not. In any case, the account wizard repeatedly showed me a screen with only a back and quit button when the account hadn’t yet been created.

          Also kept telling me I had set up 2 accounts and asking if I’d like to unify them.

          • Bro666@lemmy.kde.socialM
            1·
            8 months ago

            Haven’t heard this one before, but it sounds like a trip to https://bugs.kde.org to me. Check if it hasn’t been reported. Maybe also check on Fedora, as it may be something going on there.

            Thanks for your help!