On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 10:45 AM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > > When I try to log in to my Gmail account via Thunderbird I get the message: > > Sending of password for user [my account name]@gmail.com did not > succeed. Mail server pop.googlemail.com responded: Username and password > not accepted. > > If I try to log in via a browser, the password works. My other email > accounts work fine in Thunderbird. Any idea what gives? > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens >
This has to do with a change that Google made to Gmail. On May 30 or thereabouts they made it so that "insecure apps" can't access Gmail using the regular Gmail login name and password. I know this affects Microsoft Outlook and I am assuming from your description that it affects Thunderbird. In order to fix the issue you have to enable two factor authentication on your Google account. Then instead of your regular password you will have to use an App Password. There are more details about how to do this here https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en Bill
