[Users] Setting up a gmail account in claws-mail.

[Rolf Turner]

On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 06:56:02 +0600
Dustin Miller <dustbiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 12:04:19 +1300
> Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> 
> > I would like to add this gmail account to claws-mail.  I've clicked
> > on Configuration -> Create new account, and filled in the boxes
> > under "Basic".
> > 
> > Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> >   
> DM: My guess is there is something wrong with your Gmail account setup
> in Claws. Not sure what it should be for IMAP, but Gmail might have
> info on that via your online account or a web search would probably
> turn something up. If you're sure you have it set up right, then you
> could post all your settings here so anyone else who uses Claws,
> Gmail, and IMAP could let you know if they have different settings.

Motivated by the foregoing I checked over my settings --- for about the
aleph_0-th time --- and saw that "Use SSL/TLS" had not been ticked.
(Duh!)  Ticked it, and everything worked. :-)

Thanks.

cheers,

Rolf Turner



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