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
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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: gerardo ballabio gmail com - 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
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