So why does this message keep on appearing please: Mozilla Thunderbird Email was granted access to your Google Account. The bug that prevented POP3 OAuth2 in Thunderbird was fixed quite a few versions back and it now works just fine using POP3 on port 995. It took less that 5 mins for me to change my POP3 gmail account from “ Normal password” to “ OAuth2” on my version of Thunderbird and, once I completed the google login page, it’s worked just fine ever since… and yes, I also now show a oauth:// login with a “ long” string of characters (104 characters to be exact.)īTW, despite the fact everyone’s instructions on how to setup OAuth2 with Thunderbird indicate you must use IMAP, that’s no longer true. You’ll get a google login page where you need to enter your gmail credentials and, once you’re logged in, the “ passphrase” PKCano wrote about will automatically be generated and stored in your Thunderbird profile (that long OAuth2 string you referred to that’s on your Win11 PC.) Once you get that profile working on the new PC, “ then” you can deal with setting up OAuth2 for gmail.īTW, getting Thunderbird OAuth2 to work with gmail is real simple…ġ- Change the Authentication method to OAuth2 for your mail servers.Ģ- Keep port 995 for POP3 but change SMTP to port 465 ( 587 will not work) copied) to another PC to get Thunderbird working on it and that profile will still work exactly as before on the original PC. So, a “ know working” Thunderbird profile on one of your PC’s can be transferred (i.e. It does not remove the profile from the old PC, it creates a copy of it on the new PC. I think you’re misunderstanding what transferring a Thunderbird profile does. Sure there will may be not a problem, but I’m not lucky, and I want to get everything working on Windows 10 first. Why, because if there is a problem in transferring this Windows 7 copy to Windows 11, then at least I have the back up on Windows 10. My idea is to get everything up and running on my Windows 10 machine first. You write: Since you “ know” the Thunderbird settings on your Win7 PC work, you should start by transferring that profile to your Win11 PC.įair enough, all well and good, but what happens if there is a problem, then I’m really snookered. Note: since Win11 uses a different encryption key that Win7, the password hash from your Win7 account “ might” not match and you’ll get prompted to re-enter it the first time you use Thunderbird. Once you’ve done that, all the messages from your Win7 PC will be on your Win11 PC and Thunderbird “ should” work.
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