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Cannot conect Thunderbird to gmail

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I have been trying all day to connect to gmail using Thunderbird with no success. I cant seem to go to the part where Thunderbird shows the gmail login space for verifying my connection.

I have tried 

   removing password
   removing cookies
   reinstalling Thunderbird
   It HAS NOT allowed me to read any gmail email.

I did manage to add a separate office 365 account, put the whole point of this is to read the email in one place.

Thanks in advance for any help offered.

I have been trying all day to connect to gmail using Thunderbird with no success. I cant seem to go to the part where Thunderbird shows the gmail login space for verifying my connection. I have tried removing password removing cookies reinstalling Thunderbird It HAS NOT allowed me to read any gmail email. I did manage to add a separate office 365 account, put the whole point of this is to read the email in one place. Thanks in advance for any help offered.
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Wayne Mery
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Have you seen https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/automatic-conversion-google-mail-accounts-oauth20 ?

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Could anybody please help me. I still cannot manage to do this and am getting desperate now!

At least point me in a direction where I can look?

Thanks!

david
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Change your security authorization to Oauth2 (do this for the incoming server settings and also for the Outgoing (SMTP) server - two places - remove the password entries for the account (remove the entire entries both incoming and outgoing) - that password info is at settings>Privacy&Security - click 'saved passwords' Then click 'show passwords' then highlight the rows with incoming and outgoing gmail servers and click DELete. - check to ensure that TB is set to accept cookies (that setting is just above the Passwords section) - Google shouldl then step you through the authentication process for your PC.

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has anybody been able to solve this problem?

It seems only to happen in my office, when I tried in a fresh install in my home computer I could get it to connect.

I have Debian on most of my systems.

dennisrehm2news
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I have the same problem on two different laptops, one mac and one win10. Setting tb to accept cookies has fixed it on one laptop. So I guess that tb has a simple browser within it that is being used to talk with google. a year or more ago there was no popup window that needed cookies enabled. CLEARLY HAVING COOKIES ENABLED SHOULD BE A DEFAULT SETTING. This issue has kept from using tb for a long time but a couple years ago it worked fine without cookies enabled