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I can no longer use Gmail through Thunderbird, my password isn't being accepted

Daacrusher2001
Daacrusher2001
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I changed my password in gmail, and now Thunderbird won't accept my new password. I added 2 step verification per the suggestion in the forum, but still, every time I enter my password for gmail in Thunderbird, it doesn't accept it and asks me to retry.

Can you help?

I changed my password in gmail, and now Thunderbird won't accept my new password. I added 2 step verification per the suggestion in the forum, but still, every time I enter my password for gmail in Thunderbird, it doesn't accept it and asks me to retry. Can you help?

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user01229325
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When you set gmail to 2 step you have to generate an application specific password for Thunderbird and use that. You do this with gmail. Did you do that?

Daacrusher2001
Daacrusher2001 Question owner
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No, not sure how to do that...

user01229325
user01229325
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Gmail has instructions.

user01229325
user01229325
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Maybe this will help you. If you enabled 2 step just for Thunderbird you wasted your time since it does not use it.

http://emailmafia.net/2015/07/24/using-oauth2-for-gmail-in-thunderbird/