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Trouble with Thunderbird and gmail

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I added my Yahoo! account to Thunderbird and it worked fine. Now, when I try to do the same with my gmail, it refuses to work. Every time I try, I get a message that says: "Configuration could not be verified - is the username or password wrong?"

I added my Yahoo! account to Thunderbird and it worked fine. Now, when I try to do the same with my gmail, it refuses to work. Every time I try, I get a message that says: "Configuration could not be verified - is the username or password wrong?"

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Are you using two step verification with gmail? If so you need to create an application specific password to use with Thunderbird.

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I'm not using a two-step process, but maybe that will help anyway. How do I do that?

Inkswitch trɔe

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Gmail dreamed this up. I am sure they have instructions on their site.