Subj : Re: gmail + imap + TB
To   : August Abolins
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Thu Dec 17 2020 02:07 pm

Hi August,

On 2020-12-16 21:47:00, you wrote to All:

 AA> Anyone here using Thunderbird and using imap to pull in the
 AA> mail?

 AA> I have a friend that has somehow triggered gmail to force them
 AA> to re-login with their credentials. This is totally annoying
 AA> because the person is a senior and they have trouble
 AA> remembering the password that was established months ago.

I had the same thing in my older TB (52.1.0) happen to me this week. It popped up a browser window in TB with the google login screen. First I couldn't get past this, untill I enabled "accept all cookies" in a TB setting. But after that and successfull login TB still wouldn't show the new mail in my gmail account.

In the end I gave up and removed the gmail account from TB. As I'm in the proces of moving everything over to a new desktop computer with a newer TB, that seems to access the gmail account just fine. I have no intention to fix it in the older TB.

 AA> The person is also using Gmail on their iPad and that one is
 AA> cooperating fine.

Same here, I can access my gmail account just fine in webmail or in my gmail client on my android phone.

 AA> So.. is it normal for Gmail to start prompting for login
 AA> credentials every few months?

This was the first time it happend to me. Maybe google changed something in their authentication procedure. And as TB already has my account details (email address / password) in it's config the popup browser window with the login screen is totally unnecessary. Login/connect top the imap server should be automatic and transparent from TB.

Bye, Wilfred.

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