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Thunderbird fails to connect with Gmail-6-15-2023

deckstein17
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Thunderbird is suddenly unable to connect to Gmail. Instead, receive an error msg "Could not connect to mail server imap.gmail.com; the connection was refused". IMAP and SMTP are properly enabled and I'm able to ping both. Tried with antivirus disabled - same results. Tried Troubleshooting Mode - same results. The problem may be connected to an automatic update Windows-10 by Microsoft Windows initiated 6-15-2023 but unable to find anything being communicated along that line of thought. Any input to resolve greatly appreciated.

Thunderbird is suddenly unable to connect to Gmail. Instead, receive an error msg "Could not connect to mail server imap.gmail.com; the connection was refused". IMAP and SMTP are properly enabled and I'm able to ping both. Tried with antivirus disabled - same results. Tried Troubleshooting Mode - same results. The problem may be connected to an automatic update Windows-10 by Microsoft Windows initiated 6-15-2023 but unable to find anything being communicated along that line of thought. Any input to resolve greatly appreciated.

Chosen solution

Yes, it is. However, after a self-reboot during the night, the problem magically fixed itself. No idea what was changed or why it works now. For now - PROBLEM SOLVED

BTW - Thanks for taking the time to respond.

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Matt
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is the authentication method for the account configured to oAuth2.0

deckstein17
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Chosen Solution

Yes, it is. However, after a self-reboot during the night, the problem magically fixed itself. No idea what was changed or why it works now. For now - PROBLEM SOLVED

BTW - Thanks for taking the time to respond.