Subj : Re: gmail + imap + TB
To   : August Abolins
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Fri Dec 18 2020 09:40 am

Hi August,

On 2020-12-17 20:26:00, you wrote to me:

 WvV>>>> I had the same thing in my older TB (52.1.0) happen to me this
 WvV>>>> week. It popped up a browser window in TB with the google login
 WvV>>>> screen. First I couldn't get past this, untill I enabled "accept
 WvV>>>> all cookies"..

 AA> According to some messages that I found on Mozilla's site,
 AA> other people have experienced the same thing:

 AA> "TB keeps asking gmail account password"

 AA> Q:

 AA> "Today I had to change my gmail password via browser because I
 AA> had forgotten it.
 AA> Then Thunderbird started asking me for the gmail password (because it had
 AA> still the old one saved). But it keeps asking for it each time I have to
 AA> send a message or check emails.

 AA> I went under Edit --> Preferences --> Saved Passwords --> Show Passwords

 AA> and noticed in fact that it had the old password saved.
 AA> I then REMOVED the gmail lines, restarted TB, it asked me the passwd, put
 AA> in the new one. But it keeps asking for it. I checked  Edit --> Preferences
 AA> --> Saved Passwords --> Show Passwords  and noticed that it did not save
 AA> the new information.

 AA> What can I do? thanks."

 AA> A:

 AA> "This is fixed in TB 68.2.1, but unless there is a 60.9.1
 AA> released, you can apply the workaround:

 AA> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1271783#answer-1262722

 AA> Edit/Preferences(or AppMenu icon/Options/Options)/Advanced/General/Config.
 AA> editor"

 AA> SO..  maybe that is what I (we) should have tried.

If I remember correctly I checked the password that was set in TB, and that was the correct one. And I haven't changed my gmail password in ages...

Bye, Wilfred.

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