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Thunderbird stopped accepting the password for GMail

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rdigumarthi2
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Thunderbird stopped accepting the password for Gmail. my other eMail addresses are working. I cleared all passwords and that did not work. HELP!!

Thunderbird stopped accepting the password for Gmail. my other eMail addresses are working. I cleared all passwords and that did not work. HELP!!

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You need to switch to OAuth2 from Normal Password authentication. See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/automatic-conversion-google-mail-accounts-oauth20

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You need to switch to OAuth2 from Normal Password authentication. See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/automatic-conversion-google-mail-accounts-oauth20