Thanks for your answer Peter. In fact, when I checked my mailbox again, I found that Google sent me a message to inform that they had blocked an attempt to access my account and if that was really me, there's a configuration switch to enable access to "less secure applications".
But before I do that, as I don't know to what extent it might weaken the security of my account, I'll try changing Balsa's settings as you suggest to see whether that makes it "more secure". Gerardo 2015-04-06 1:07 GMT+02:00, Peter Bloomfield <[email protected]>: > Hello Gerardo! > > On 04/05/2015 06:48:32 PM Sun, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: >> 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 > ... >> >> I figured that Remote IMAP mailbox might not be the right choice and >> tried Remote IMAP folder too. > > Yes, that's the right choice! > >> 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 > > That's a close match to what I use, except that I have ticked "Enable bug > workarounds" (and "Use STATUS for mailbox checking", but that's probably > irrelevant). GMail is a quirky IMAP server, and you may really need the > workarounds. > >> 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. > > If using the bug workarounds doesn't fix the issue, try running Balsa from > the command line with the "-D" option--you'll see a transcript of the dialog > with the GMail server on the console, and it may give you a hint as to > what's going wrong. Don't post the transcript to the list without *very* > carefully sanitizing it, though. > > HTH! > > Peter _______________________________________________ balsa-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/balsa-list
