OT: Fetching gmails into Thunderbird

They prefer you to use oAuth2.0 authentication, you're probably better off using IMAP than POP

Yes, but

- you may need to turn on POP/IMAP in Gmail first

- you may need to allow less secure apps access

Google don't make it very clear that instead of enabling the "less secure" option you can use oAuth.

I use Thunderbird to get mail from an old gmail account. It's set to imap.gmail.com port 993 and uses OAuth2 authentication. I don't claim any expertise, this is what Thunderbird set it to by default and it works fine.

Another Dave

Mine set itself up automatically without any difficulty some time ago. I use POP on the desktop machine and IMAP on the laptops. I guess I am less secure but I've not had any problems.

Also check that you are on the very latest version of Thunderbird.

Gmail (certainly with IMAP) performs an additional validation step whivh the email client has to support.

If the client is too old, all you get is "invalid password".

BTDTBTTS

Cheers

Dave R

Doesn't seem to matter when using POP3. My old version of Thunderbird picks up mail happily enough on port 995 with connection security set to SSL/TLS and authentication on Normal password.

Possibly not true ... I can't speak for Google, but quite a few services I used (Hotmail/Outlook, for example) are able to accommodate applications that are not 2FA aware by allowing you to generate an "app password". The idea being you use that specific password for your non-2FA app, rather than having to disable 2FA, log in, and then re-enable it.

Certainly with MS and the other sites I've done this with, there's an option in the control panel to revoke app passwords if needed.

I had to do this to allow my Android phone to pick up my Hotmail.

I only ever got it to work with IMAP

DAMHIKT

Yes, I do gmail fine on a variety of email clients that way.

To receive mail I can use pop.gmail.com port 995, security SSL/TLS

To send mail I can use smtp.gmail.com port 465, security SSL/TLS

I had to set this up after some Swiss hotel blocked me from sending mail using the Plusnet servers.

Well its what I do, but using IMAP. In fact I have Google pull my BT mails into Google....

... you need to enable POP first, but as Google gives you such a big mailbox why not leave it on their server?

Dave

But I use Thunderbird to fetch all my BT emails and want to collect gmails in the same way, not read my BT emails from with gmail.

Same here, but I use 2FA with Google so had to use a specific app generated password for Thunderbird on Windows 10.

Only thing is Thnderbird seems a little slow in authenticating with Google, not a big thing but it is in the order of a handful of seconds ;)

Yes they like this three authentication stuff though, they keep on emailing me to tell me to get rid of my old fashioned client. Well bah humbug i say. Brian

I tried it last time we had this conversation. It worked just fine here.

I think the idea is that you can have gmail do the donkey work aggregating multiple external email boxes. Then you can then download those along with the actual gmail messages.