On 6/11/22 10:19, Bill Barry wrote:
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?
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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
Grouse, grouse. Google is always trying to be "helpful."
I logged in to Google Mail via a browser, found where to turn on two
factor authentication, and turned it on. I still can't log in from
Thunderbird. I tried shutting down T-Bird and starting it back up, but
that didn't help. I logged back in to Google Mail where it tells me two
factor authentication is turned on. Sigh. Fortunately, I don't use gmail
too often, and I can always check it in a browser, but it's annoying.
Thanks for letting me know about their requirement.
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
