Re: OT: Kmail/Akonadi insists on using Gmail account even on non-Gmail email account

2023-06-26 Thread debian-user 
Kent West  wrote:
> I don't *really* understand how Akonadi fits into Kmail/Yahoo, but,
> meh;

I don't use KDE or Kmail so I googled akonadi. The first hit is
https://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi and it starts by saying:

"The Akonadi framework is responsible for providing applications with a
centralized database to store, index and retrieve the user's personal
information."

Then the first item listed on that page is:

 KMail
Mail Client
Uses Akonadi to store emails

which seems to answer the question as far as my curiousity goes at
least :)

Re: OT: Kmail/Akonadi insists on using Gmail account even on non-Gmail email account

2023-06-26 Thread Curt 
On 2023-06-26, Kent West  wrote:
>
> I don't *really* understand how Akonadi fits into Kmail/Yahoo, but, meh; my
> real question is: Does anyone here know if KMail *requires* a Gmail account
> to access a non-Gmail email account (and if so, that seems really stupid)?
> If not, how do I get around this failing new-account wizard issue?

I've no idea, but in the bug thread below concerning similar symptoms it seems
to be a wallet-related issue (at the very end someone says restarting
the Akonadi server had a positive effect).

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428762

> Thanks!
>
>

OT: Kmail/Akonadi insists on using Gmail account even on non-Gmail email account

2023-06-26 Thread Kent West 
This should go into the KDE forums, I know, but as intelligent of a human
as I am, I am unable to figure out how to post a question there. So knowing
the Debianistas are incredibly resourceful, I thought I'd ask here.

I've just set up a test box, running Debian 12, fairly minimal install,
with only KDE Plasma and a few other pieces added in.

I wanted to give KMail a spin (it never has worked well for me because of
my GMail accounts authenticating through SSO stuff, which I've never been
able to figure out), and to start off with I figured I'd limit it to just
one non-GMail account, a Yahoo!Mail account I have. (The Yahoo!Mail account
works fine with Thunderbird (which I added to test the account, after not
getting it to work with KMail.))

So I created a new Debian user (so there'd be no cruft that might get in
the way) and logged out of KDE/Debian as my usual user and logged in as my
new user (via sddm login screen).

I then fired up KMail, and the account-creation wizard began. I filled in
my Yahoo!Mail account info, and when I got near the end, it popped up a
window wanting a GMail account to which Akonadi needed permission.

I don't *really* understand how Akonadi fits into Kmail/Yahoo, but, meh; my
real question is: Does anyone here know if KMail *requires* a Gmail account
to access a non-Gmail email account (and if so, that seems really stupid)?
If not, how do I get around this failing new-account wizard issue?

Thanks!


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