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I changed my Gmail password, now Thunderbird message is username & password not accepted, how do I fix this?

nancybecker
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I apologize in advance for not understanding previous answers to similar questions. But please can you help me?

I changed my Gmail password and also changed the Thunderbird password but I keep getting this message in Thunderbird: Sending of password for user mail4njb@gmail.com did not succeed. Mail server pop.googlemail.com responded: Username and password not accepted.

Thank you.

I apologize in advance for not understanding previous answers to similar questions. But please can you help me? I changed my Gmail password and also changed the Thunderbird password but I keep getting this message in Thunderbird: Sending of password for user mail4njb@gmail.com did not succeed. Mail server pop.googlemail.com responded: Username and password not accepted. Thank you.

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You probably need to log into the gmail web site and enable less secure apps in your settings there.

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Matt
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You probably need to log into the gmail web site and enable less secure apps in your settings there.

nancybecker
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Thank you Matt!!!!!

Hours ago I made that change but when I just checked now it was turned off, somehow it didn't update or something I did wrong.

So I sent myself a message in Thunderbird and the message appears in the send folder without an error message.

But the sent message doesn't appear in my Inbox, do I need to change something in Gmail so that new messages will appear on both my desktop and my Chromebook?

Nancy Becker