Re: [Evolution] evolution and gmail

[<william dossett gmail com>]

LOL   that worked immediately.   Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: Leopoldo Macias <leopoldo maciasnetwork com> 
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 2:46 PM
To: William Dossett <william dossett gmail com>; evolution-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [Evolution] evolution and gmail

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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