I am trying to use the default mail app to connect to my gmail account.
I noticed that when I enter an email *gmail.com, I am forced to setup a google account, and cannot see the pop/imap settings. I don’t want to add a Google account to my device, only read my emails…
It works fine with other domains, so I don’t understand this choice for the ‘Mail’ app.
Is there a workaround ? I can do it fine on Thunderbird on my computer or any other mail app…
If I could just remove or replace the default mail app, this would also not be a problem.
Hi. I have a similar problem with K9-Mail. I also have multiple account on more than one provider. I set up Gmail, from the site, to forward every email to another address and so I don’t need to access Gmail, never more.
Well that’s interesting. At first I thought you must be mistaken but yeah, a system account is needed. Not even possible to do a manual setup.
That makes no sense in my opnion.
I realized the same. I found a way to trick it If you on purpose spell the email adress wrongly like “a.b@gmail.co”, you can start manual setup and then adjust the servers and addresses accordingly. Only disadvantage will be that the account keeps being named wrongly.
Quick note: For my, using OAuth did not work (I assume due to the e /os/ email app not being verified compared to K-9). The way to fix this is to create an App Password as described elsewhere.
If you on purpose spell the email adress wrongly like “