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Can some please ELIF about how this affects Thunderbird. I currently (and for years) have used POP3 to download my gmail mailbox (and SMTP to send outgoing).
by PopAlongKid 5y ago
Can some please ELIF about how this affects Thunderbird. I currently (and for years) have used POP3 to download my gmail mailbox (and SMTP to send outgoing). My Thunderbird account setting for gmail currently shows "normal password". Will I have to change it to OAuth or one of the others? Or will I need a special "password" just for use with Thunderbird (this is something my Yahoo/AT&T email started requiring last year).
Maybe related, I have seen for years that whenever I try to download gmail into Thunderbird and I am not at my normal office location, Google requires me to first log in to my account via a browser, then it allows the Thunderbird login.
- tialaramex 5y agoSince nobody else responded: I don't use Thunderbird, but yes, if you have anything vaguely close to a modern Thunderbird then you should choose OAuth2 instead of "Normal Password" for both sending and receiving. You may need to exit Thunderbird and go back in, then it should prompt you via what is in effect a web frame, to log in by whatever means you ordinarily use for Google, then Google asks if you really want to let Thunderbird read and send mail (you do) and this grants it a token that it will use to access your mail. The alternative would be to set up an "App password" in your Google account and then paste the password (which Google chooses) into Thunderbird. That password is then independent of your actual Google password and can't be used to sign in as you on Google, just by mail clients for checking mail and so on, sounds like you did this with Yahoo/AT&T already once. Prefer OAuth2.