Comments on: Configure GMail in Evolution, Thunderbird or KMail

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 05:00:02 +0000

Thanks! It finally worked. I think on all of the others I had typed my password wrong, so it just wouldn’t authenticate.

By: Daymond Green

Daymond Green — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:38:51 +0000

#EDIT Unfortunately simply adding the port :995 and :465 is not working for me. I ran the command dig smtp.googlemail.com (Mozilla Thunderbird uses this address and it works) in a terminal to get the ip address witch is 74.125.93.16 and plugged it in with the port :995 for imap and :465 for smtp and it works great. To test i added 74.125.93.16 smtp.googlemail.com and 74.125.93.16 imap.googlemail.com to my /etc/hosts and used the url:port method and it did not work. So, my guess is that for Evolution to work with url:port you must use IPaddress:port Thanks

By: Daymond Green

Daymond Green — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:36:04 +0000

Unfortunately simply adding the port :995 and :465 is not working for me. I ran the command dig smtp.googlemail.com (Mozilla Thunderbird uses this address and it works) in a terminal to get the ip address witch is 74.125.93.16 and plugged it in with the port :995 for imap and :465 for smtp and it works great. To test i added dig smtp.googlemail.com and dig imap.googlemail.com to my /etc/hosts and used the url:port method and it did not work. So, my guess is that for Evolution to work with url:port you must use IPaddress:port Thanks

By: rick

rick — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:42:57 +0000

using Evolution 2.28.3:

thanks to cbuckridge for

The syntax for adding a port number is:
pop.gmail.com:995 -did not need
smtp.gmail.com:465 ----worked w/ SSL encryption enabled (thanks Farshad)

thanks to all

By: Krishna kataria

Krishna kataria — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:12:23 +0000

yes its really great i get help.
in my evolution SSL working.. tls not working
so use ssl.
thanks

By: Farshad

Farshad — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:24:42 +0000

Hi,
for Evolution, in SMTP settings, encryption type: SSL worked for me. Maybe you should correct the post.

By: rahul sharma

rahul sharma — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:45:42 +0000

Great post, works like a charm.
thanks a lot.

By: Chadhurbhujaya

Chadhurbhujaya — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:20:58 +0000

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By: SriMathe

SriMathe — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:21:06 +0000

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By: Jeffrey Pannell

Jeffrey Pannell — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:26:50 +0000

Excellent post. I couldn’t figure out why gmail was not downloading all messages. It turns out that I had forgotten to enable POP for all.

Thanks,
Scott

By: Babu

Babu — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:21:50 +0000

Hi,
I configured the evolution as per the screenshots, when i tried to send my first mail..it showed a message saying the default key ring is not accesible..it asked for password.. i typed in my user password (ubutu), it still showed error…i clicked on deny and the message never appeared again for send mail i sent.. the mail went through though.. could you please explain what is the the default key ring and why evoultion tried access it ?

by the way iam using ubuntu 8.04

a constructive critism..in latest evolution the receiving mails setups comes first
the user has to selct pop and pop.gmail.com and ssl encryption..
Thanks in advance

By: cbuckridge

cbuckridge — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:23:29 +0000

The syntax for adding a port number is:
pop.gmail.com:995
smtp.gmail.com:465

By: Abhinav Mehta, MSRIT

Abhinav Mehta, MSRIT — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:30:03 +0000

Thasnx a-lot buddy.

By: ketan

ketan — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:15:12 +0000

Thanks friends IT’s working properly..

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:15:28 +0000

Great post!! It Works!!!

Thank you guys!!!

cheers.

By: filx

filx — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:12:12 +0000

in server configuration ----> pop.gmail.com:995
the same for smtp server….

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:07:14 +0000

I think the port for Kmail is incorrect.
I have always used 995 our incoming mail.

By: jjay

jjay — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:44:10 +0000

Matt yes that’s because smtp.google.com needs you to set a high port for communication. Here is Google’s info on setting up clients for accessing it.

Incoming Mail (POP3) Server - requires SSL: pop.gmail.com
Use SSL: Yes
Port: 995
Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server - requires TLS: smtp.gmail.com (use authentication)
Use Authentication: Yes
Use STARTTLS: Yes (some clients call this SSL)
Port: 465 or 587

I don’t see anywhere in Evolution to configure the port numbers, only the server name and authentication type!

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:15:23 +0000

The problem is that Evolution doesn’t communicate with smtp.google.com … I’ve tried everything, and nothing I find online helps…

By: Binoy

Binoy — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:31:23 +0000

I configured both Evolution and Thunderbird. Thunderbird is running quite smooth,but when i am trying to send a message in Evolution an error message appears “broken pipe”.Please help me.I thank for your contribution.

Thanks,

Binoy