On Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:33:02 BST Mick wrote: > On Tuesday, 13 August 2019 10:19:23 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I'm using my ISP's SMTP server with the same settings as usual. KMail > > detected them itself > > Yes, it does the same here, when I ask it to detect what Gmail wants to use, > ... then it fails when it tries to set up a XOAUTH2 token via akonadi's > plugin. > > I succeeded by selecting manually individual authentication settings and > trying them one at a time.
Do you mind saying which authentication method worked? > > Let's see if this goes out, after I spent two days rebuilding the whole > > system from scratch and setting up yet another new account for myself. > > I've also tried switching from MySQL to PostgreSQL for storage; so far I > > see little change. > > I've received this fine, via the list, so whatever you've done appears to > have worked. It was that two-day rebuilding operation. > MySQL used to be problematic in the early days of akonadi, or perhaps it was > akonadi itself to blame. I've used both MySQL and PostgreSQL. I can't say > I've noticed a difference, except PostgreSQL upgrades being somewhat more > involved between major releases. However, this may have something to do > with the way I had unnecessarily complicated its installation and > configuration. The KDE PIM users' list has a few people who claim to have banished their problems by switching to PSQL, but I can't confirm that yet. -- Regards, Peter.
