Hello all, I tried to configure Balsa to access my gmail account with IMAP, but failed. Please help. For the moment I'm only interested in reading email, not sending.
Gmail instructions say I should first activate IMAP in the Gmail settings. I've done that. Then they say I should set up my email client as follows: Incoming mail server (IMAP), SSL required - imap.gmail.com - port: 993 - requires SSL: yes So I opened Balsa, clicked Edit/Preferences/Remote mailbox servers/Add/Remote IMAP mailbox, and filled the fields: - Mailbox name: gmail - Server: imap.gmail.com - Username: [email protected] (tried also without the @gmail.com part, same result) - Anonymous access: not ticked - Remember password in keyring: ticked - Password: <my gmail password> - Folder path: INBOX - Identity: <blank> - Decrypt and check signatures automatically: If Possible - Advanced/Use SSL: ticked - Advanced/Use TLS: If Possible (greyed out) - Enable persistent cache: not ticked - Enable bug workarounds: not ticked But when I tried to open the mailbox, it popped up a dialog asking: Password for [email protected]@imap.gmail.com (imap): And when I typed in the password, it popped up again and again. After maybe five tries it gave up. I figured that Remote IMAP mailbox might not be the right choice and tried Remote IMAP folder too. I filled the fields: - Descriptive name: gmail - Server: imap.gmail.com - User name: [email protected] - Password: <my gmail password> - Anonymous access: not ticked - Remember password in keyring: ticked - Subscribed folders only: not ticked - Always show INBOX: ticked - Prefix: <blank> - Advanced/Use SSL: ticked - Advanced/Use TLS: If Possible (greyed out) - Advanced/Max number of connections: 20 - Advanced/Enable persistent cache: ticked - Advanced/Use IDLE command: not ticked - Advanced/Enable bug workarounds: not ticked - Advanced/Use STATUS for mailbox checking: not ticked This time it seems Balsa doesn't even let me try to open the folder: when I click on it in the left pane, it doesn't move the focus. Can you tell me what am I doing wrong please? If you need to know, I'm running Debian stable and the Balsa version is 2.4.12. Thank you Gerardo _______________________________________________ balsa-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/balsa-list
