Suffice it to say that they’re different, and they each have their strengths and weaknesses.Ĭlick the hamburger button, then choose Account Settings: I won’t go into a long and dramatic explanation of the differences between POP3 and IMAP.
Convert your POP3 Gmail setup to IMAP in Thunderbird Nevertheless, there’s not much you can do about it. This is not happening for your safety and security. So, sure – OAuth 2.0 is all whiz-bang secure, but don’t kid yourself. I mean, this is the company that gave you a 1GB storage space with your brand new e-mail account years ago – as long as you agreed that they get to read all your mail. Honestly? Because Google wants to spy on you better. Your only option is to switch over from POP3 to IMAP in Thunderbird. This time, there isn’t an option to make it work anyway with Gmail. Now, Gmail will effectively shut off POP3 completely for Thunderbird users by May 30, 2022. So, you had to go through a convoluted process on Google to enable “less secure” Tbird to play nicely with POP3 for Gmail. Google insisted that POP3 mail accounts were, “not secure enough”. You may remember a similar thing happening not long ago. I don’t use Thunderbird now though.If you use Thunderbird to download e-mails from your Gmail account, it may stop working soon. Google mail, I find using the portable version of Thunderbird useful for trial and error as they do not mess up your registry and can be deleted thereafter. In the past whenever there is a change in configuration required for Thunderbird in order to access and retrieve web-based email provider e.g.
“To help keep your account secure, from May 30, 2022, Google no longer supports the use of third-party apps or devices which ask you to sign in to your Google Account using only your username and password.”
The conversion to oAuth 2.0 is required as Google plans to drop username and password authentication options for third-party apps and devices on May 30, 2022.”Ģ) Google Help Centre – Less secure apps & your Google Account It is an automatic conversion that should work without issues for most users. “The biggest change in the point release changes the authentication method for Google mail accounts. There seems to be a change in authentication method for Google Mail after to modern authoutication (oAuth 2.0):ġ) Ghacks – Thunderbird 91.8.0 makes important changes to Google Mail Accounts
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