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On Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:33:02 BST Mick wrote: |
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> On Tuesday, 13 August 2019 10:19:23 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > I'm using my ISP's SMTP server with the same settings as usual. KMail |
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> > detected them itself |
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> Yes, it does the same here, when I ask it to detect what Gmail wants to use, |
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> ... then it fails when it tries to set up a XOAUTH2 token via akonadi's |
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> plugin. |
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> I succeeded by selecting manually individual authentication settings and |
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> trying them one at a time. |
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Do you mind saying which authentication method worked? |
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> > Let's see if this goes out, after I spent two days rebuilding the whole |
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> > system from scratch and setting up yet another new account for myself. |
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> > I've also tried switching from MySQL to PostgreSQL for storage; so far I |
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> > see little change. |
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> I've received this fine, via the list, so whatever you've done appears to |
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> have worked. |
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It was that two-day rebuilding operation. |
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> MySQL used to be problematic in the early days of akonadi, or perhaps it was |
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> akonadi itself to blame. I've used both MySQL and PostgreSQL. I can't say |
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> I've noticed a difference, except PostgreSQL upgrades being somewhat more |
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> involved between major releases. However, this may have something to do |
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> with the way I had unnecessarily complicated its installation and |
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> configuration. |
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The KDE PIM users' list has a few people who claim to have banished their |
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problems by switching to PSQL, but I can't confirm that yet. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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