Re: [Evolution] Evolution and gmail

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Mon, 2022-08-15 at 06:08 -0300, Francisco M Neto wrote:
> when I try to add this email address as a POP account, Evolution
> automatically turns it into a "gmail-type" account and reverts to
> IMAP syncing. 

        Hi,
I tried it with 3.44.4 (which might be pretty much the same as your
3.44.3 in this regard, I think), and when I do:

File->New->Mail Account, fill in the Gmail address, click Next (with
the lookup enabled), then it auto-detects the settings and moves me to
the end of the wizard, where I click Back and change the IMAP to POP,
then just Next, choose whether leave the message on the server or not,
then Next, Next, ... back to the end of the wizard and there I leave
unchecked the boxes to add also Contacts and the Calendars/Task Lists
for this account (they had been checked after the autoconfig, but when
I switched to the POP it unchecked them on its own), then the POP type
sticks.

I guess the difference is the Contacts/Calendars/Task Lists, you
probably checked one or both of them, in which case you get a
collection account, which is fully managed by the evolution(-data-
server), which forces IMAP mail account type. Not using these two check
boxes creates bare account, which is completely up to you to setup
properly.

The help page [1] doesn't mention the detail about the check boxes, but
it also offers a different (completely manual) way of creating the POP
account.

        Bye,
        Milan

[1] https://infrastructure.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/help.gnome.org/evolution/mail-access-gmail-pop-account.html