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Thunderbird and gmail account

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matt.wiggans
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Thunderbird can no longer receive gmail> I go round and round in a loop. Sign in with your google account. Notification sent to my phone. Yes it's me. select a number. Mozilla Thunderbird wants to access your Google Account - Allow Secure Connection Failed.

Thunderbird can no longer receive gmail> I go round and round in a loop. Sign in with your google account. Notification sent to my phone. Yes it's me. select a number. Mozilla Thunderbird wants to access your Google Account - Allow Secure Connection Failed.

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Hello matt.wiggans

while OAuth2 is the preferred auth for Google, it's said (in their doc) that they still support app passwords if you enable 2FA on the account.

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matt.wiggans
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Sorry to be dumb. I've gone to settings / general, but cannot find configuration editor or mailnews or loglevel. How do I get to these?

matt.wiggans
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I have gone to settings general but cannot find the configuration editor or loglevel or anything else in search. Sorry to be dumb.

gp
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I asked for the configuration editor (that's a button labeled 'Config editor' at the lower end of the tab 'General' of Settings) only because I did not see your last message. So I wanted to get further debugging. But if your original problem is solved, there is no point to do that.

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