Good (insert appropriate section of the day in your timezone here).

I've recently bought a new laptop, and when installing the operating system (Debian Testing with KDE 4.4.5, in case that matters) and configuring it, I decided to use the whole Nepomuk/Akonadi/Strigi thing to see how it's changed since I last tried it (it's not activated in my desktop computer because back then I didn't find it all that useful and never bothered to give it a try later). And while I've seen some things I like (like the ability to sync with Google Calendar and Contacts), I faced one little issue: when I tried to configure an Akonadi IMAP resource to use with my Gmail account (an account which works fine in Kmail, by the way) I got an error message saying that it can't connect to the Gmail IMAP server, and complains about not being able to find a valid password for my username (both with and without the @gmail.com part). But all the details (IMAP server name, user name, and password) are correct, since they worked in Kmail.

So the question is, is it simply that the IMAP resource doesn't work for Gmail, or am I doing something wrong without noticing? Or maybe it's a bug?

Are you sure the port numbers are correct? Gmail uses non-standard port numbers.

TheBlackCat wrote:Are you sure the port numbers are correct? Gmail uses non-standard port numbers.

You know, I had thought that it was a bit strange... The fact that I'm never asked to provide a port number, I mean. Just the server domain (that is, imap.gmail.com), username, password, encryption (SSL), authentication method (plain text), a period of time to check the server (I left the default 5 minutes), and two checkboxes (for subscriptions and disconnected IMAP, I left both unchecked).

What I did was use the "Configure" option of the context menu of the akonaditray utility. This brings up the akonadi configuration dialog, where I click the "Add" button, select the IMAP resource, and that makes a dialog appear with the options described above, and no option to specify a port number whatsoever. Perhaps the IMAP Akonadi resource configuration dialog in KDE 4.4.5 assumed default ports, and the option to specify the port was added later?

Bumping this just in case there's someone out there that can help me...

Did you try configuring an existing imap service? That may have more options.

TheBlackCat wrote:Did you try configuring an existing imap service? That may have more options.

I'm even more confused now. What do you mean by "configuring an existing imap service"? There's only one type of imap resource (called "IMAP mail server", with a description that says "connects to an IMAP mail server"*) when I click the "Add" button in the akonadi config dialog from akonaditray.

* those are translations, actual wording for English versions of KDE may vary.