[Klug-general] SOLVED [was Re: gmail woes.]

[Sharon Kimble]

Its sorted. What needed to be done was to enable the web-based gmail
account to use imap in "gear-icon -> Settings -> Forwarding and
POP/IMAP -> IMAP access -> Enable IMAP -> Save".

Thanks folks
Sharon.

On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 10:41:32 +0000
Sharon Kimble <boudiccas at talktalk.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 09:40:03 +0000
> Karl Buckland <buckland.karl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Any reason that you're not using the rather splendid Gmail app? It
> > has push notifications and many nifty features.
> 
> Yes I had a look at it last night when I was trying to disable it, and
> it does look pretty neat, but I'm trying to get all my email accounts
> into one programme, and it gets bonus points if its open-source too.
> 
> Sharon.
> > 
> > Karl
> > On 29 Dec 2013 09:35, "Sharon Kimble" <boudiccas at talktalk.net>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Last night I tried setting up gmail on my android mobile in 'k9',
> > > and I could get it working on pop3 but not imap, using the same
> > > user-name and password in each case. The error report from imap
> > > was that either the user-name or password was wrong, even though
> > > it was the same in both cases! So does anyone know of any reason
> > > why imap should not work please?
> > >
> > > I have gmail set up on this desktop claws-mail and it works here
> > > with imap, so I'm puzzled! Can anyone help please?
> > >
> > > Oh, and Happy New Year (almost! :)
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