Comments on: Configure GMail in Evolution, Thunderbird or KMail

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

I don?t usually reply to posts but I will in this case. I?ve been experiencing this very same problem with a new WordPress installation of mine. I?ve spent weeks calibrating and getting it ready when all of a sudden? I cannot delete any content. It?s a workaround that, although isn?t perfect, does the trick so thanks! I really hope this problem gets solved properly asap.

By: SriMathe

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

Wow! Thank you! I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my blog?

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

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:46:19 +0000

Great post, helped me get Kmail going when google was down for a bit here in Thailand.

Thanks,

Eric

By: Trevor

Trevor — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:03:32 +0000

I absolutely appreciate this post and I don’t know what I would have done without it. However, I would like to offer some constructive criticism about one thing that I noticed. In your post above, you did not mention what to do in Evolution mail when it came to the “Receiving Mail” screen where a user is required to fill in pop.gmail.com among other things.

I thought it was necessary to point this out because it may be hard for some less technically inclined people to understand why something wasn’t included in the article above.

No worries though, your article aside from that small mistake was very helpful and I thank you for your contribution.

Sincerely,

Trevor B.

By: auburn

auburn — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:15:53 +0000

I just noticed that thunderbird 2.0 has gmail listed as one of the types of email accounts. So the instructions are now *really* easy:

Start Thunderbird

Select “File,” “New,” Account, the New Account Wizard will launch. On the window that pops up select “gmail,” and next.

Then type in your name in the top box, and your full GMail email address in the bottom, and click next, then click finish.