Merkuro: Setup a Gmail account

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I tried to give Merkuro a spin as an alternative to KMail on KDE Neon 6.

Sadly, I can’t manage to setup my Gmail account with it. Has anyone successfully done it?

I am aware the app is considered beta and not very much documented at this point, but I am willing to help brush some of its bugs up and provide user feedback. Provided I can get passed the account setup process.

Cheers,

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@ghisvail:

First, welcome to the KDE Forums.

You possibly have to set up an App password within your GMail account.

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Indeed. Somehow, I was expecting a Gmail integration similar to GNOME Online Accounts.

There was an option to use Gmail authentification, and I eventually got Akonadi registered as an authorized application. But Merkuro was still unable to communicate with the account and fetch emails.

Using the solution you proposed worked as expected.

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To make a long story short, I did as follows to get gmail in merkuro:

  1. Create a Clinet ID in https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/
  2. Copied and replaced the generated Client Id and Client secret in the /usr/share/accounts/providers/kde/google.provider file.
  3. Added my google account in Online Accounts, available in system settings
  4. Configured my gmail account from kmail.
  5. Opened Merkuro. It copied the setup in kmail.
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