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Can't link my gmail account to Thunderbird mail

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t.zak902
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Hi, I've been trying to link my gmail account to Thunderbird mail without any success.

I got this error: Unable to login in at server. Probably wrong configuration, username or password.

My account doesn't have 2FA enabled.

What could be the issue?

Hi, I've been trying to link my gmail account to Thunderbird mail without any success. I got this error: Unable to login in at server. Probably wrong configuration, username or password. My account doesn't have 2FA enabled. What could be the issue?

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t.zak902
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I forgot to mention that I'm using Thunderbird mail 91.11.0 and it does detect gmail and I chose imap and all the details are correct.

I need your help, should I install an older version? how?

Matt
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Given gmail required oauth as a minimum and that requires cookies and no "other software" using the localhost

I would guess the place to start is with cookies as some third party products that claim to be "protecting you" turn those off.

See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/automatic-conversion-google-mail-accounts-oauth20 for some background.