Gmail access

[Zack Sten]

I have been accessing my Gmail account (IMAP) successfully via T'bird
for more than 5 years. Recently I have been attempting to add my wife's
Gmail account (IMAP) to T'bird. Her Gmail account is set to allow access
via IMAP. I have not been successful setting up this new account from
within T'bird. I am getting a message that either the username or
password is incorrect; There is no problem using the username and
password when I do web access. All of the server and account settings
are identical between our two Gmail accounts. So...
any recommendations.

[»Q«]

In
<news:mailman.4387.1432300980....@lists.mozilla.org>,

If you haven't already, log in via the web from her machine, then
immediately afterwards try logging in with Thunderbird. Google has a
list of other things to try at
<https://support.google.com/mail/answer/78754>.

[Millwood]

Forgive me for mentioning the obvious. Have you enable imap in the
Gmail setting in her account?

[Mike Easter]

»Q« wrote:

> Zack Sten wrote:
>
>> I have not been successful setting up this new account from within
>> T'bird. I am getting a message that either the username or password
>> is incorrect;

> <https://support.google.com/mail/answer/78754>.

That article has links to a page which gives access to a gmail function
for turning on/off allowing less secure apps (which gmail mentions Tb)
and someone recently posted here that less secure configuration solved a
login problem for them.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en Allowing less
secure apps to access your account - Some Desktop mail clients like
Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird - Go to Allow less secure apps
and choose “Allow”


I'm curious about what is under the hood there that gmail doesn't finish
explaining.


--
Mike Easter

[Ryan P.]

I recently had a similar problem when trying to add my wife's gmail
account to her Thunderbird. GMail has an additional security setting to
"allow less secure apps to access your Google account."

This has to be toggled via the web interface.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en

-Ryan

[Wilf]

Has her Gmail account been set to 2-stage (2-step?) security? If so,
she'll have to set up a special one-off app password for Thunderbird as
it's not programmed to deal with said extra security.

See
https://accounts.google.com/b/0/IssuedAuthSubTokens?hide_authsub=1#accesscodes



--
Wilf

[Tanstaafl]

On 5/22/2015 10:29 AM, Mike Easter <Mi...@ster.invalid> wrote:
> https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en Allowing less
> secure apps to access your account - Some Desktop mail clients like
> Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird - Go to Allow less secure apps
> and choose “Allow”
>
> I'm curious about what is under the hood there that gmail doesn't finish
> explaining.

This has to do with their implementation of OAUTH2, and since
Thunderbird 38 now supports it, this (enabling access for less secure
apps) will no longer be necessary.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=849540

[»Q«]

In
<news:mailman.4408.1432310452....@lists.mozilla.org>,

Thanks -- I was curious about this also, since we *know*
Thunderbird/NSS supports the most secure encryption technology
available for e-mail and passwords.

[Dave Warren]

In the last episode of
<mailman.4411.1432305032....@lists.mozilla.org>,

Google doesn't want applications storing passwords at all, and for good
reason. Instead, they want to know passwords come from users, OAuth
tokens come from applications (and are not shared between applications).

This switch tells Google to accept passwords via protocols that support
password based authentication.

New versions of Thunderbird should support Google's OAUTH, but out of
date versions won't.