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Thunderbird will not connect to google. Says username or password is incorrect. It is correct.
Thunderbird has started to give me problems accessing Gmail. It started this morning. I do not receive and can't send email. Sometime is works correctly. Tried to uninstall, remove profile and reinstall. Also deleted the Thunderbird app access from my google account. Now it will not connect at all. Says my username and password are incorrect. I know they are correct. I have got it to accept the username and password earlier today after about 10 tries before I did a complete reinstall.
Chosen solution
Are you letting the new account wizard set up the account? What account type are you trying to set up - POP or IMAP?
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Application Basics
Name: Thunderbird Version: 38.5.1 User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 Profile Folder: Show Folder
(Local drive) Application Build ID: 20151228123010 Enabled Plugins: about:plugins Build Configuration: about:buildconfig Memory Use: about:memory
Mail and News Accounts
Crash Reports
Extensions Lightning, 4.0.5.1, true, {e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}
Important Modified Preferences
Name: Value
browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400 browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 358400 browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: false browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max: false extensions.lastAppVersion: 38.5.1 font.name.monospace.el: Consolas font.name.monospace.x-cyrillic: Consolas font.name.monospace.x-unicode: Consolas font.name.monospace.x-western: Consolas font.name.sans-serif.el: Calibri font.name.sans-serif.x-cyrillic: Calibri font.name.sans-serif.x-unicode: Calibri font.name.sans-serif.x-western: Calibri font.name.serif.el: Cambria font.name.serif.x-cyrillic: Cambria font.name.serif.x-unicode: Cambria font.name.serif.x-western: Cambria font.size.fixed.el: 14 font.size.fixed.x-cyrillic: 14 font.size.fixed.x-unicode: 14 font.size.fixed.x-western: 14 font.size.variable.el: 17 font.size.variable.x-cyrillic: 17 font.size.variable.x-unicode: 17 font.size.variable.x-western: 17 mail.openMessageBehavior.version: 1 mail.winsearch.firstRunDone: true mailnews.database.global.datastore.id: 6a473042-753a-4a96-9083-d596eee8083 network.cookie.prefsMigrated: true plugin.importedState: true
Graphics
Adapter Description: AMD Radeon HD 5450 Vendor ID: 0x1002 Device ID: 0x68f9 Adapter RAM: 1024 Adapter Drivers: aticfx64 aticfx64 aticfx64 amdxc64 aticfx32 aticfx32 aticfx32 amdxc32 atiumd64 atidxx64 atidxx64 atiumdag atidxx32 atidxx32 atiumdva atiumd6a atitmm64 Driver Version: 15.201.1151.1008 Driver Date: 11-4-2015 Direct2D Enabled: false DirectWrite Enabled: false (10.0.10586.0) ClearType Parameters: ClearType parameters not found WebGL Renderer: false GPU Accelerated Windows: 0
AzureCanvasBackend: skia AzureSkiaAccelerated: 0 AzureFallbackCanvasBackend: cairo AzureContentBackend: cairo
JavaScript
Incremental GC: 1
Accessibility
Activated: 0 Prevent Accessibility: 0
Library Versions
Expected minimum version Version in use
NSPR 4.10.10 4.10.10
NSS 3.19.2.1 Basic ECC 3.19.2.1 Basic ECC
NSS Util 3.19.2.1 3.19.2.1
NSS SSL 3.19.2.1 Basic ECC 3.19.2.1 Basic ECC
NSS S/MIME 3.19.2.1 Basic ECC 3.19.2.1 Basic ECC
From the Troubleshooting Information no account has been set up yet. You'll need to set up the account first.
I can't setup the account....that is my problem. Thunderbird refuses to accept my username or password. Sometimes it will but i have not got it to work in the past few hours. I think it may be a problem with google or my account because I tried another client and had the similar issues.
Chosen Solution
Are you letting the new account wizard set up the account? What account type are you trying to set up - POP or IMAP?