I was excited to learn recently that Gmail can now be accessed via IMAP in mail clients. It had long been accessible via POP but since that virtually tied you to a single machine, and also nixed the wonderful online storage, labelling and organisation that Gmail offers, I passed that up in favour of web access.
But a new day has dawned. Feverishly, I applied the online configuration instructions for IMAP access in Thunderbird to Evolution and voila - had no trouble receiving mail. But I couldn't send mail via Gmail's SMTP server. After some forum trawling and a little trial and error, I found a configuration that worked:
Server: smtp.gmail.com:587
Server requires authentication: tick
Use Secure Connection: TLS encryption
Authentication type: plain
Username: userName@gmail.com
Remember password: tick
Oh happy day! I like email clients and IMAP.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
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