On 2020-4-12 5:51, VanguardLH wrote:
Ralph Fox wrote:
Gmail POP3 login is still working here.
Gmail may have turned off your "Less secure app access", which would
disallow Thunderbird logging in with your main Google account password.
If you can, use an "App Password" with POP3 instead of your main
Google account password. Then you will not have problems when
Gmail turns off your "Less secure app access". You need to turn
on "2-step verification" before you can create an "App Password",
but you can turn it off again afterwards.
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255
Thunderbird support OAUTH2 authentication. I remember reading you had
to go into the account's server config to enable OAUTH2 logins.
As for turning off "Less secure app access", I've read Google is doing
that for their paid business-class G Suite service, not for their
personal-use free services.
From G Suite admin help:
https://support.google.com/a/answer/6260879?hl=en
Well, they're doing it to paid users. They'll probably eventually get
around to ****ing over freeloaders, too.
Thanks for the confirmation and suggestions. I checked POP3 and "Less
secure app access" settings: POP3 is enabled as before, but "Less secure
app access" is turned off. I never encountered that Google will turn it
off for me! It labeled two security events that I access from other
countries, maybe that's the cause. But I have to use proxy to access
Google from china. Anyway I turned it on and TB begins to fetch mail
again, though seems from a much older time.
As to "App Password", it needs me to turn on "2-step verification".
After I read
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185839 , that
makes me feel it is a unnecessary complicated process and provide no
more security, if not less. It needs a phone -- phones are known to be
insecure, especially chinese phones. So I'd rather not enable it as long
as I can still use current method.
As to OAUTH2, Thunderbird does support it but not in POP3, only IMAP.
Maybe I should switch to IMAP someday. For now I do not see much
advantage of it for I only use Gmail on PC.
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Lu Wei
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