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Configure an account in several PCs

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I want to configure a unique gmail account in several machines/PC, but when an email is sending, comes an error message: "The message could not be sent using Outgoing server (SMTP) smtp.googlemail.com for an unknown reason. Please verify that your Outgoing server (SMTP) settings are correct and try again."

I would appreciate. Thanks

I want to configure a unique gmail account in several machines/PC, but when an email is sending, comes an error message: "The message could not be sent using Outgoing server (SMTP) smtp.googlemail.com for an unknown reason. Please verify that your Outgoing server (SMTP) settings are correct and try again." I would appreciate. Thanks

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Underneath Account Settings, try to change the 'Authentication type' to 'OAuth2' for both, incoming and outgoing server.

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Application Basics

   Name: Thunderbird
   Version: 38.3.0
   User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0
   Profile Folder: Show Folder
             (Local drive)
   Application Build ID: 20150928051427
   Enabled Plugins: about:plugins
   Build Configuration: about:buildconfig
   Memory Use: about:memory
 Mail and News Accounts


   account2:
     INCOMING: account2, , (none) Local Folders, plain, passwordCleartext
   account3:
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     OUTGOING: smtp.googlemail.com:465, SSL, passwordCleartext, true
   account4:
     INCOMING: account4, , (imap) imap.gmail.com:993, SSL, OAuth2
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   Test Pilot for Thunderbird, 1.3.10, false, tbtestpilot@labs.mozilla.com
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 Graphics
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     Device ID: 0x0102
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     Direct2D Enabled: false
     DirectWrite Enabled: false (6.2.9200.17461)
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 JavaScript
 Incremental GC: 1
 Accessibility
   Activated: 0
   Prevent Accessibility: 0
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     Version in use
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     NSS Util
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     3.19.2 Basic ECC
     NSS S/MIME
     3.19.2 Basic ECC
     3.19.2 Basic ECC
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There are two Gmail accounts (account3 and account4). Which is the one with the problem?

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Chosen Solution

Underneath Account Settings, try to change the 'Authentication type' to 'OAuth2' for both, incoming and outgoing server.