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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