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. > > -- > Seth H Holmes > [email protected] > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the K-9 Mail Users > List. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > 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 [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the K-9 Mail Users List. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, email [email protected] 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
