Comment 25 for bug 1945368

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In , Unicorn-consulting (unicorn-consulting) wrote :

(In reply to Matt Miller from comment #13)

> One has to set Gmail to ALLOW for a 'Less Secure App' !

No one does not! Thunderbird has supported oAuth authentication for Google for some time now. IMAP/SMTP since Thunderbird 40 and POP since Thunderbird 74.

> And even with that...........if one doesn't keep up with the TB updates, then one can find themselves not being able to reach the gmail server
> because gmail has 'changed' their Security Protocols!

That is always going to be a possibility. But oAuth makes it less likely. There was an issue on the 68 release for instance, Bug 1592407