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Since update Gmail not downloading

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Since I updated Thunderbird my Gmail emails are not downloading to my Thunderbird Inbox unless I first open the file in gmail first. Is there a setting change?

Since I updated Thunderbird my Gmail emails are not downloading to my Thunderbird Inbox unless I first open the file in gmail first. Is there a setting change?

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christ1
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Since I updated Thunderbird my Gmail emails are not downloading to my Thunderbird Inbox

https://support.mozilla.org/kb/cannot-receive-messages

... unless I first open the file in gmail first.

Please explain what exactly that means and what you're doing.

Also, please post your Troubleshooting Information. At the top right of the Thunderbird window, click the menu button , then select Help > Troubleshooting Information. Press the "Copy text to clipboard button" and paste the information into your reply.

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In Thunderbird when I press the button "Get Messages" nothing happens (it doesn't download any emails) If I then open gmail in my browser (either Firefox, Chrome or Safari) there are several emails in my inbox that are unread. The minute I open one of these emails in my browser only then does Thunderbird download that one email I opened to my inbox. I have to open each email in my browser separately before Thunderbird downloads the email.

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Troubleshooting Information?

chevian
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Application Basics 

   Name: Thunderbird
   Version: 78.3.1
   Build ID: 20200925001233
   Distribution ID:

   Update Channel: release
   User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.3.1
   OS: Darwin 19.6.0

   Multiprocess Windows: 0/0
             Disabled
   Remote Processes: 0
   Enterprise Policies: Inactive
   Google Location Service Key: Missing
   Google Safebrowsing Key: Missing
   Mozilla Location Service Key: Missing
   Safe Mode: false

 Mail and News Accounts
   account1:
     INCOMING: account1, , (none) Local Folders, plain, passwordCleartext



   account6:
     INCOMING: account6, , (imap) imap.gmail.com:993, SSL, OAuth2
     OUTGOING: , smtp.googlemail.com:465, SSL, OAuth2, true

 Crash Reports for the Last 3 Days

 Remote Processes

   Type: Count

 Extensions

     Name
     Version
     Enabled
     ID

       Amazon.co.uk
       1.1
       true
       amazon@search.mozilla.org

       Bing
       1.0
       true
       bing@search.mozilla.org

       Chambers (UK)
       1.0
       true
       chambers-en-GB@search.mozilla.org

       DuckDuckGo
       1.0
       true
       ddg@search.mozilla.org

       Google
       1.0
       true
       google@search.mozilla.org

       Wikipedia (en)
       1.0
       true
       wikipedia@search.mozilla.org

 Security Software

   Type: Name

     Antivirus:
     Antispyware:
     Firewall:

 Graphics

     Features
     Compositing: OpenGL
     Asynchronous Pan/Zoom: none
     WebGL 1 Driver WSI Info: CGL
     WebGL 1 Driver Renderer: Intel Inc. -- Intel HD Graphics 4000 OpenGL Engine
     WebGL 1 Driver Version: 4.1 INTEL-14.7.8
     WebGL 1 Driver Extensions: GL_ARB_blend_func_extended GL_ARB_draw_buffers_blend GL_ARB_draw_indirect GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility GL_ARB_explicit_attrib_location GL_ARB_gpu_shader_fp64 GL_ARB_gpu_shader5 GL_ARB_instanced_arrays GL_ARB_internalformat_query GL_ARB_occlusion_query2 GL_ARB_sample_shading GL_ARB_sampler_objects GL_ARB_separate_shader_objects GL_ARB_shader_bit_encoding GL_ARB_shader_subroutine GL_ARB_shading_language_include GL_ARB_tessellation_shader GL_ARB_texture_buffer_object_rgb32 GL_ARB_texture_cube_map_array GL_ARB_texture_gather GL_ARB_texture_query_lod GL_ARB_texture_rgb10_a2ui GL_ARB_texture_storage GL_ARB_texture_swizzle GL_ARB_timer_query GL_ARB_transform_feedback2 GL_ARB_transform_feedback3 GL_ARB_vertex_attrib_64bit GL_ARB_vertex_type_2_10_10_10_rev GL_ARB_viewport_array GL_EXT_debug_label GL_EXT_debug_marker GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample_blit_scaled GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_EXT_texture_sRGB_decode GL_APPLE_client_storage GL_APPLE_container_object_shareable GL_APPLE_flush_render GL_APPLE_object_purgeable GL_APPLE_rgb_422 GL_APPLE_row_bytes GL_APPLE_texture_range GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once GL_NV_texture_barrier
     WebGL 1 Extensions: ANGLE_instanced_arrays EXT_blend_minmax EXT_color_buffer_half_float EXT_float_blend EXT_frag_depth EXT_shader_texture_lod EXT_sRGB EXT_texture_compression_rgtc EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic MOZ_debug OES_element_index_uint OES_fbo_render_mipmap OES_standard_derivatives OES_texture_float OES_texture_float_linear OES_texture_half_float OES_texture_half_float_linear OES_vertex_array_object WEBGL_color_buffer_float WEBGL_compressed_texture_s3tc WEBGL_compressed_texture_s3tc_srgb WEBGL_debug_renderer_info WEBGL_debug_shaders WEBGL_depth_texture WEBGL_draw_buffers WEBGL_lose_context
     WebGL 2 Driver WSI Info: CGL
     WebGL 2 Driver Renderer: Intel Inc. -- Intel HD Graphics 4000 OpenGL Engine
     WebGL 2 Driver Version: 4.1 INTEL-14.7.8
     WebGL 2 Driver Extensions: GL_ARB_blend_func_extended GL_ARB_draw_buffers_blend GL_ARB_draw_indirect GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility GL_ARB_explicit_attrib_location GL_ARB_gpu_shader_fp64 GL_ARB_gpu_shader5 GL_ARB_instanced_arrays GL_ARB_internalformat_query GL_ARB_occlusion_query2 GL_ARB_sample_shading GL_ARB_sampler_objects GL_ARB_separate_shader_objects GL_ARB_shader_bit_encoding GL_ARB_shader_subroutine GL_ARB_shading_language_include GL_ARB_tessellation_shader GL_ARB_texture_buffer_object_rgb32 GL_ARB_texture_cube_map_array GL_ARB_texture_gather GL_ARB_texture_query_lod GL_ARB_texture_rgb10_a2ui GL_ARB_texture_storage GL_ARB_texture_swizzle GL_ARB_timer_query GL_ARB_transform_feedback2 GL_ARB_transform_feedback3 GL_ARB_vertex_attrib_64bit GL_ARB_vertex_type_2_10_10_10_rev GL_ARB_viewport_array GL_EXT_debug_label GL_EXT_debug_marker GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample_blit_scaled GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_EXT_texture_sRGB_decode GL_APPLE_client_storage GL_APPLE_container_object_shareable GL_APPLE_flush_render GL_APPLE_object_purgeable GL_APPLE_rgb_422 GL_APPLE_row_bytes GL_APPLE_texture_range GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once GL_NV_texture_barrier
     WebGL 2 Extensions: EXT_color_buffer_float EXT_float_blend EXT_texture_compression_rgtc EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic MOZ_debug OES_texture_float_linear WEBGL_compressed_texture_s3tc WEBGL_compressed_texture_s3tc_srgb WEBGL_debug_renderer_info WEBGL_debug_shaders WEBGL_lose_context
     Uses Tiling: true
     Uses Tiling (Content): true
     Off Main Thread Painting Enabled: true
     Off Main Thread Painting Worker Count: 3
     Target Frame Rate: 60

     GPU #1
     Active: Yes
     Vendor ID: 0x8086
     Device ID: 0x0166
     RAM: 0

   GPU #2

     Diagnostics
     AzureCanvasBackend: skia
     AzureContentBackend: skia
     AzureFallbackCanvasBackend: none
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chevian
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Application Basics 

   Name: Thunderbird
   Version: 78.3.1
   Build ID: 20200925001233
   Distribution ID:

   Update Channel: release
   User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.3.1
   OS: Darwin 19.6.0

   Multiprocess Windows: 0/0
             Disabled
   Remote Processes: 0
   Enterprise Policies: Inactive
   Google Location Service Key: Missing
   Google Safebrowsing Key: Missing
   Mozilla Location Service Key: Missing
   Safe Mode: false

 Mail and News Accounts
   account1:
     INCOMING: account1, , (none) Local Folders, plain, passwordCleartext



   account6:
     INCOMING: account6, , (imap) imap.gmail.com:993, SSL, OAuth2
     OUTGOING: , smtp.googlemail.com:465, SSL, OAuth2, true



 Crash Reports for the Last 3 Days

 Remote Processes

   Type: Count

 Extensions

     Name
     Version
     Enabled
     ID

       Amazon.co.uk
       1.1
       true
       amazon@search.mozilla.org

       Bing
       1.0
       true
       bing@search.mozilla.org

       Chambers (UK)
       1.0
       true
       chambers-en-GB@search.mozilla.org

       DuckDuckGo
       1.0
       true
       ddg@search.mozilla.org

       Google
       1.0
       true
       google@search.mozilla.org

       Wikipedia (en)
       1.0
       true
       wikipedia@search.mozilla.org

 Security Software

   Type: Name

     Antivirus:
     Antispyware:
     Firewall:

 Graphics

     Features
     Compositing: OpenGL
     Asynchronous Pan/Zoom: none
     WebGL 1 Driver WSI Info: CGL
     WebGL 1 Driver Renderer: Intel Inc. -- Intel HD Graphics 4000 OpenGL Engine
     WebGL 1 Driver Version: 4.1 INTEL-14.7.8
     WebGL 1 Driver Extensions: GL_ARB_blend_func_extended GL_ARB_draw_buffers_blend GL_ARB_draw_indirect GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility GL_ARB_explicit_attrib_location GL_ARB_gpu_shader_fp64 GL_ARB_gpu_shader5 GL_ARB_instanced_arrays GL_ARB_internalformat_query GL_ARB_occlusion_query2 GL_ARB_sample_shading GL_ARB_sampler_objects GL_ARB_separate_shader_objects GL_ARB_shader_bit_encoding GL_ARB_shader_subroutine GL_ARB_shading_language_include GL_ARB_tessellation_shader GL_ARB_texture_buffer_object_rgb32 GL_ARB_texture_cube_map_array GL_ARB_texture_gather GL_ARB_texture_query_lod GL_ARB_texture_rgb10_a2ui GL_ARB_texture_storage GL_ARB_texture_swizzle GL_ARB_timer_query GL_ARB_transform_feedback2 GL_ARB_transform_feedback3 GL_ARB_vertex_attrib_64bit GL_ARB_vertex_type_2_10_10_10_rev GL_ARB_viewport_array GL_EXT_debug_label GL_EXT_debug_marker GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample_blit_scaled GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_EXT_texture_sRGB_decode GL_APPLE_client_storage GL_APPLE_container_object_shareable GL_APPLE_flush_render GL_APPLE_object_purgeable GL_APPLE_rgb_422 GL_APPLE_row_bytes GL_APPLE_texture_range GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once GL_NV_texture_barrier
     WebGL 1 Extensions: ANGLE_instanced_arrays EXT_blend_minmax EXT_color_buffer_half_float EXT_float_blend EXT_frag_depth EXT_shader_texture_lod EXT_sRGB EXT_texture_compression_rgtc EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic MOZ_debug OES_element_index_uint OES_fbo_render_mipmap OES_standard_derivatives OES_texture_float OES_texture_float_linear OES_texture_half_float OES_texture_half_float_linear OES_vertex_array_object WEBGL_color_buffer_float WEBGL_compressed_texture_s3tc WEBGL_compressed_texture_s3tc_srgb WEBGL_debug_renderer_info WEBGL_debug_shaders WEBGL_depth_texture WEBGL_draw_buffers WEBGL_lose_context
     WebGL 2 Driver WSI Info: CGL
     WebGL 2 Driver Renderer: Intel Inc. -- Intel HD Graphics 4000 OpenGL Engine
     WebGL 2 Driver Version: 4.1 INTEL-14.7.8
     WebGL 2 Driver Extensions: GL_ARB_blend_func_extended GL_ARB_draw_buffers_blend GL_ARB_draw_indirect GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility GL_ARB_explicit_attrib_location GL_ARB_gpu_shader_fp64 GL_ARB_gpu_shader5 GL_ARB_instanced_arrays GL_ARB_internalformat_query GL_ARB_occlusion_query2 GL_ARB_sample_shading GL_ARB_sampler_objects GL_ARB_separate_shader_objects GL_ARB_shader_bit_encoding GL_ARB_shader_subroutine GL_ARB_shading_language_include GL_ARB_tessellation_shader GL_ARB_texture_buffer_object_rgb32 GL_ARB_texture_cube_map_array GL_ARB_texture_gather GL_ARB_texture_query_lod GL_ARB_texture_rgb10_a2ui GL_ARB_texture_storage GL_ARB_texture_swizzle GL_ARB_timer_query GL_ARB_transform_feedback2 GL_ARB_transform_feedback3 GL_ARB_vertex_attrib_64bit GL_ARB_vertex_type_2_10_10_10_rev GL_ARB_viewport_array GL_EXT_debug_label GL_EXT_debug_marker GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample_blit_scaled GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_EXT_texture_sRGB_decode GL_APPLE_client_storage GL_APPLE_container_object_shareable GL_APPLE_flush_render GL_APPLE_object_purgeable GL_APPLE_rgb_422 GL_APPLE_row_bytes GL_APPLE_texture_range GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once GL_NV_texture_barrier
     WebGL 2 Extensions: EXT_color_buffer_float EXT_float_blend EXT_texture_compression_rgtc EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic MOZ_debug OES_texture_float_linear WEBGL_compressed_texture_s3tc WEBGL_compressed_texture_s3tc_srgb WEBGL_debug_renderer_info WEBGL_debug_shaders WEBGL_lose_context
     Uses Tiling: true
     Uses Tiling (Content): true
     Off Main Thread Painting Enabled: true
     Off Main Thread Painting Worker Count: 3
     Target Frame Rate: 60

     GPU #1
     Active: Yes
     Vendor ID: 0x8086
     Device ID: 0x0166
     RAM: 0

   GPU #2

     Diagnostics
     AzureCanvasBackend: skia
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christ1
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Your account settings look good. Since you do seem to be able to retrieve mail in general, there doesn't seem to be a server settings problem either.

In Thunderbird when I press the button "Get Messages" nothing happens

Why would you press "Get Messages" in the first place? I'd expect Thunderbird pulling mail automatically at startup, as well as in regular intervals? What is the interval in your account settings?

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I do get email automatically for my other email accounts as my interval settings are just a few minutes. I foolishly keep pressing the "Get messages" button in the hope that it would download my emails but to date still no luck. I still have to open gmail in a browser first then it downloads to Thunderbird. This is highly frustrating. Any other suggestions?

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my interval settings are just a few minutes.

Typically email providers limit how many times an email client can retrieve mail within a certain time. Try to increase the interval to at least 10 min for the troubled account. Is there any difference?

Also, are there any other devices connecting to the account simultaneously, e.g. other instances of Thunderbird, or mobile devices?