It's probably a corollary to Godwin's law that all discussions of e-mail
configuration eventually turn into a discussion of IMAP vs POP3.
FWIW: You can enable both IMAP and POP3 support for your GMAIL account.
For POP3 you have the following options:
1. Enable POP for all mail (even mail that's already been downloaded)
Enable POP for mail that arrives from now on
Disable POP
2. When messages are accessed with POP:
keep Gmail's copy in the Inbox
mark Gmail's copy as read
archive Gmail's copy
delete Gmail's copy
You should have the following configured:
Incoming Mail (POP3) Server - requires SSL: pop.gmail.com
Use SSL: Yes
Port: 995
Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server - requires TLS or SSL: smtp.gmail.com
Use Authentication: Yes
Port for TLS/STARTTLS: 587
Port for SSL: 465
Server timeouts: Greater than 1 minute, 5 minutes recommended
Account Name or User Name: your full email address (including @gmail.com
or @your_domain.com)
So since you're getting an authentication error, I'm going to a wild
stab and guess that you're "Account Name" is set to just the username
portion of the e-mail address. It needs to be the full e-mail address to
authenticate.
I strongly suggest setting up 2-factor authentication and creating an
application specific password for authentication in K-9. Not because I
don't trust the developers of K-9, but because I don't trust anybody.
Another thing to factor into the POP3 equation is that if you are
archiving any e-mail as you receive it via filter, you probably will not
be able to download it via POP3 as it will only get messages in the Inbox.
--
Seth H Holmes
shol...@route-fu.net
--
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the K-9 Mail Users List.
To post to this group, send email to k-9-mail@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe, email k-9-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
To report an issue with K-9 Mail, visit
http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/list
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/k-9-mail
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to k-9-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
