I have both pop and imap enabled on the gmail account.

I tried two-step verification in the past and it freaked out my other apps
and logging in on the pc.  So I am not going to mess with that

I checked and made sure my account name is the entire gmail email address
with the @gmail and all

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Seth Holmes <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>
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