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Peculiar problem with email and Thunderbird
I've been using Thunderbird as my default email program for a few years -used to use Eudora, but that's another story- and by and large it works well for the 3 email accounts we have. Today a frustra...
Thank you for trying to help. Seeing as the other 2 accounts are still working well in TB I figured it has to be a TB configuration, so just now I went into TB Preferences - Privacy and Security - Saved Passwords and deleted the password for the account in question. Fired up TB and Google asked for the password for the account and then verified 3rd party access for TB and we're off to the races at long last!
FuzzyLogic
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Community Power UserI don't use Thunderbird but have had issues with other mail clients and Gmail. It's possible you need to set up an app specific password for Thunderbird to access your mail.
More info here:
Sign in with App Passwords - Google Account Help
I also found this that may be relevant:
Google Announcement - 30 May 2022 | Thunderbird Support Forum | Mozilla Support
