I am trying to use Thunderbird 68.5.0 to access Gmail, on which I have enabled two factor authentication. I am able to access my Gmail account in the browser.
In Google accounts, I have generated an app password.
Following the advice at this link, I have set general.useragent.compatMode.firefox
to true
. javascript.enabled
is already set to true
, and cookies are already enabled.
Then in Thunderbird I click on the "hamburger" menu button and from there I do + New | Existing Mail Account...
On the dialog that pops up I enter my name, and the email address of my gmail account. Following the advice on this page, I enter here the app password (not the normal password of my Gmail account). I click Continue.
Thunderbird automatically selects IMAP and detects the gmail servers. I click Done.
Thunderbird then displays another dialog asking for my Gmail email address, and another asking for my password - here I enter the normal password for my Gmail account. I then get the following error message:
Google couldn't verify that this account belongs to you
Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I have tried many other permutations on the above, no joy.
Manual Config
button, it displays the hostname, port, SSL and Authentication (OAuth2), but there is no place to enter a password - The only option is to click Done and from there it displays the followup dialogs as described in my original message.