[Evolution-users] gMail continuous authentication request

[Mark Stanton]

On Thu, 2026-08-06 at 14:17 +0100, Mark Stanton via evolution-users
wrote:
> Ooops, forgot to say my Evolution version is 3.60.2 (3.60.2-1.fc44) 
> 
> On Thu, 2026-08-06 at 14:13 +0100, Mark Stanton via evolution-users
> wrote:
> > I thought I'd seen this raised recently but now can't find it in my
> > mailbox, sorry if I've just lost it.
> > 
> > As of today, GMail is asking for authentication every time
> > Evolution
> > accesses it, every ten minutes!
> > 
> > I've had an OS update today (Fedora 44) which perhaps includes
> > cryptography stuff, but I've gone into my GMail account settings, I
> > can't see anything relevant there.  I've (continually) re-
> > authenticated, included 2Factor auth... how do I make it stop?
> > 
> > TIA
> > Mark

Is it really the case that Evolution has a bug that means it cannot
support POP3 with OAuth2 for GMail under KDE, even with gnome-keyring
running correctly?

AI suggests I need to switch to IMAP because of this.