Download Gmail To Thunderbird
Antonette Hespe
Is there a secret configuration only the cool kids know about for handling Gmail accounts in Thunderbird? Or can we just admit after 20 years of development that Thunderbird is just a bad email client for gmail?
Go to the Outgoing Server (SMTP) dropdown and select the SMTP server you added (smtp.gmail.com).
This will ensure that email for this account is sent through the correct SMTP server. (This is important if you have multiple accounts and SMTP servers configured.)
I have changed the related application password 5 times with no change in behavior. But if I use the web gmail the password changed and I can read my email. At present I can not read, download, or save my email with Thunderbird.I have two other email accounts but they are not affected.Any idea what is going on here?
Switch each account's Incoming email from Password to OAuth2 for Gmail login:
*Edit -> Account Settings -> [your account name] -> Edit SMTP server
In the lines in the popup box use the settings below:
Server Name: smtp.gmail.com
Port: 995
Connection security: SSL/TLS
Authentication method: OAuth2
Switch each account's Outgoing email from Password to OAuth2 for Gmail login:
*Edit -> Account Settings -> Outgoing Server (SMTP)
Click the server name and Edit in the upper box.
In these lines in the popup box use the settings below.
Server Name: smtp.gmail.com
Port: 465
Connection security: SSL/TLS
Authentication method: OAuth2
1. Verify IMAP is enabled on the TWU Gmail account with these steps
2. In Thunderbird, go to Tools > Account Settings
3. Click the Account Actions dropdown box in the lower left corner
4. Click Add Mail Account.
5. Enter TWU email address and password
6. Click Continue
7. Click the Manual Config button
8. Enter the server settings as follows: IMAP imap.gmail.com 993 SSL/TLS Normal password SMTP smtp.gmail.com 587 Autodetect Normal password
9. Enter full TWU email address for the Incoming and Outgoing usernames
10. Click Re-test
11. Click Advanced config
12. Click Server Settings under email address on the left side
13. Change the Authentication method dropdown box to OAuth2
14. Click OK
15. Click Inbox for TWU mailbox on the main Thunderbird window
16. Sign in to Google account with TWU email address and password
17. Click Allow when Thunderbird asks for permissions to view and manage email
If you're using the same Gmail POP account with multiple email clients you need to enable recent mode in order to let each email client access all of the messages in that account. You can do that by replacing user...@gmail.com with recent:user...@gmail.com as the username in Tools -> Account Settings -> Server Settings.
Using OAuth2 for "secure authentication" will popup a window for your password using your systems default browser. It requires cookies to be enabled for google.com. Cookies are normally enabled by default (Tools -> Privacy -> Accept cookies from web site is checked, and "Keep until" is set to "until they expire"). OAuth2 creates a token that will be used as if it was a stored password, by the password wizard. You can use a normal password instead for "secure authentication". However, unless you log into using a browser and select Allow to let less secure apps access your Google account Gmail may return an error when you try to login if you haven't had the Gmail account for at least 90 days. They have changed the error message several times. Currently it should look something like: "Sending of password for user XYZ did not succeed. Mail server pop.gmail.com responded: Web login required: ". [1]
The account wizard might use googlemail.com instead of gmail.com in the server names. They are equivalent. Gmail was rebranded as Google Mail in Germany, Austria and the United Kingdom. Since 2012 Gmail is branded Gmail in germany
If you have multiple Gmail IMAP accounts some of the directories will have a numeric prefix such as imap.gmail-1.com. Look at the "Local Directory" setting at the bottom of the Tools -> Account Settings -> account_name -> Server Settings (by the browse button) to find the name of that account's directory.
We recently blocked a sign-in attempt to your Google Account [XX...@gmail.com]. If this was you you can switch to an app made by Google such as Gmail to access your account (recommended) or change your settings at so that your account is no longer protected by modern security standards. To learn more, see
Gmail supports plus-addressing, a useful way to create a disposable email address. Let's say your email address is John...@gmail.com and you need to give the xyzzy website an email address. If you give them JohnSmi...@gmail.com, it will still be delivered to your inbox, despite the To: header having an extra "+xyzzy". If somebody starts sending spam to that email address, you could create a message filter that tests for xyzzy in the To: header and automatically delete (or move to the Junk mail folder) those messages when checking for new mail. Some email systems violate RFC 2822 and won't send a message using plus addressing, but it is normally not a problem.
While you can use the built-in search on each site to find solutions in the Thunderbird Knowledge Base, Get Satisfaction and MozillaZine, often it is faster and easier to use Google to search using the "site:sitename" qualifier. For example, if you are searching for information about gmail settings, then the following searches would be faster
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