[Discuss] Using thunderbird for sending gmail

Jerry Feldman gaf.linux at gmail.com
Mon Aug 31 18:37:01 EDT 2020


Could be. Or as Richard said, I could set up dovecot.

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On Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 5:42 PM Bill Cattey <wdc at mit.edu> wrote:

> I recently acted on email from Yahoo that said, "We're changing our
> authentication system, if you delete and re-create your Thunderbird
> Yahoo configuration it will do the right thing." It looks like
> re-creating the account to use oauth2 switched authentication systems.
>
> I suspect the same thing is happening with gmail.
>
> -Bill Cattey
>
> David Rosenstrauch wrote on 8/31/20 4:01 PM:
> >
> >
> > On 8/31/20 3:38 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> >> I have 2 gmail accounts that I use. Both are now being blocked.
> >
> >> My settings are for SMTP:
> >> smtp.gmail.com
> >> port 465
> >> SSL/TLS
> >> Normal Password
> >> my email address
> >>
> >> My imap settings are:
> >> imap.googlemail.com
> >> Port 993
> >> Normal Password
> >> my email address
> >
> >
> > T'bird works for on Gmail for me using:
> >
> >
> > * imap.gmail.com (993)
> > * smtp.gmail.com (465)
> >
> > and for both servers:
> >
> > * email address as my username
> > * connection security:  ssl/tls
> > * auth method:  oauth2
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > DR
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