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Subject: Re: Intro and Kontact troubles(Jack Monty)
From: Colin J Thomson <colin.thomson () g6avk ! co ! uk>
Date: 2022-01-29 17:31:39
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On Saturday, 29 January 2022 13:46:42 GMT Colin Ward wrote:
> First of all, Welcome, Jack to the kdepim-users
> community!
Yes welcome Jack
> As to your issue with Kontact and Google Calendar
> and contacts, I am having the issue as well with
> contacts but due to some digging I have done on my
> own into the issue, and without going into a detailed
> explanation, the contacts portion of Kontact will no
> longer sync with Google contacts. This is because of
> a change made by Google. If Kontact is
> reprogrammed to line up with this change, then
> Google contacts should again be able to sync with
> Kontact, but I am not aware of any plans for that
> reprogramming to happen but I am not "in the
> know" about such things.
Here is the bug report on the google contacts issue, changes need to be made
in libkgapi, a big job and only 1 (I think) person working on it.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439285
> as for syncing your calendar, I suspect you have to
> set up what is known as an app password. This is a
> "special" password that allows google to "trust" what
> are called "untrusted" apps. These are apps that
> google has decided do not meet its securi ty protools
> and so they are blocked from connecting to Google's
> servers. If you search for "setting up an app
> password google Kontact" or something similar,
> there are many good tutorials.
I can't comment on the calendar issue as mine is OK, but I think Colin is
right that you need to set something in your Google account...
Regards
Colin
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