Subj : Re: gmail + imap + TB
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : August Abolins
Date : Sat Dec 19 2020 10:30 am

>  WvV> Maybe the config change and a restart of TB is enough to
>  WvV> get things going again?

> I think it's too late to try just that. The weekend is upon us
> - the son-in-law is surely already present. Unless he knows to
> track down the workaround like I did, and try it first, he
> will just opt for resetting a new password.  Then, the
> original problem will still lurk in the shadows.


Update.  That is exactly what happened.  They opted for new gmail password.

From the header in a recent email:

Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 12:33:33 -0500
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101
   Thunderbird/78.5.1

According to Mozilla, this was a Dec 2 release.

But the last time I worked on that pc, was in Oct.

So.. they probably opted for one more update in the 78.5.x series.
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