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Cannot use gmail with thunderbird , with recent: mode enabled (gmail service issue)

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Up until this morning I was using recent: mode for my gmail account to download mail over pop3.

No when the username is recent:myaccount@gmail.com I cannot auth anymore. (wrong password message appears)

If i remove recent: from within the username it works perfectly.

Anybody experiencing the same issue ?

For now, I switched to imap to my other mobile devices and only use one account with pop3 (computer).

Up until this morning I was using recent: mode for my gmail account to download mail over pop3. No when the username is recent:myaccount@gmail.com I cannot auth anymore. (wrong password message appears) If i remove recent: from within the username it works perfectly. Anybody experiencing the same issue ? For now, I switched to imap to my other mobile devices and only use one account with pop3 (computer).

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Solución elegida

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!starred/gmail/pIkRcWDd-j4lease (as of 2014-06-18 this comes back as invalid)

Please monitor this Google thread for their progress with fixing this issue.

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have you considered asking gmail what is happening, after all it is their service.

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Matt, First I checked with Gmail forums and there is already a thread there about this issue. I also created a new profile on Outlook 2010 with "recent:" mode and it works. So, this leads me to think it is thunderbird specific? Adding to what xjust explained, I am using "recent:name@gmail.com" in the username field on Account settings/server settings. This way I can get all the emails on all devices I setup regardless of whichever grabs it first. "name@gmail.com" as username works. So a wild guess, maybe there is a check/truncation for ":" character in username field on 24.4 update?

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Solución elegida

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!starred/gmail/pIkRcWDd-j4lease (as of 2014-06-18 this comes back as invalid)

Please monitor this Google thread for their progress with fixing this issue.

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