Re: [Evolution] evolution and gmail

[Leopoldo Macias <leopoldo maciasnetwork com>]

Bill,
I use gmail on my Evolution. Have you tried using Online Accounts to
set it up? I use Settings-->Online Accounts and selecting Google.
Worked for me without having to enter the port numbers or security
settings.

Evolution 3.26.6


On Wed, 2018-11-28 at 14:01 -0700, William Dossett via evolution-list
wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I've tried everything I can think of and have found googling and I
> can't make evolution work with gmail.  When I first setup evolution a
> few months ago, it worked, but then I had some issue with it and my
> exchange mail account and uninstalled and reinstalled a couple of
> times and now it just will not work.  I have tried all the different
> encyption methods, oauth2 and password authentication 
>  
> Prettty much all the same error, or two different errors maybe... 
> with the standard configuration that it auto configures when I give
> it my email address
>  
> imap.googlemail.com  port 993
>  
> tls on dedicated port  and oAuth2  I get a big red banner failed to
> connect and failed to open folder with a reconnect button.  When I
> reconnect, I put my credentials in and then I get failed to open
> folder, the reported error was failed to authenicate the name 1.9 was
> not provided by and service files and thats pretty much it, it
> doesn't fetch mail.  I have tried password and starttls after
> connecting and combinations of these, but always the read banner
> saying can't open folder... actually with the second combination
> above it goes to loading and I was hopeful it might be downloading,
> but no, eventually it gives up after a very long time.  I know
> evolution must work with google as it did at first, is there
> something I need to clean out of it that might be cached?   Would
> reallly appreciate any help with this as I am now using Linux Mint
> more than 50% of the time and growing for work as it's just more
> efficient than windows for the work I am doing these days and having
> to turn to my windows system to check my gmail or use the web browser
> doesnt' really cut it.
>  
> Thanks
> Bill
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