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Google's warning- You may lose access to some of your third-party apps

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spborshe
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Recently I received an email from google with a title- On May 30, you may lose access to apps that are using less secure sign-in technology. My questions are- What will happen to Thunderbird's access to google email accounts? What are option available to Thunderbird's users? What is the solution to continue to use Thunderbird for google email accounts? Please enlighten me on the above.

Recently I received an email from google with a title- On May 30, you may lose access to apps that are using less secure sign-in technology. My questions are- What will happen to Thunderbird's access to google email accounts? What are option available to Thunderbird's users? What is the solution to continue to use Thunderbird for google email accounts? Please enlighten me on the above.

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david
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Using OAUTH2 has been an option for several years and now it will soon be mandatory for Gmail. TB has that option and it's rather straightforward. You need to change authorization by going to tools>account settings>server settings and changing authentication method to OAUTH2 and then going to tools>preferences>privacy&security and remove the gmail passwords - highlight account, rightclick and remove password. After that, shut down TB and restart. You will be presented with a menu to log into gmail to grant access to TB. Once done, life should resume.