OT: Thunderbird and gmail

[Bruce Easton]

Not sure if this could help, but there are at least a couple of similar 
posts on mozilla support forum where the chosen solution mentions 
turning off '2-step Verification' for any account used by Thunderbird 
(whether it be for gmail or msn).  I'm guessing that's something to be 
done in google mail config.  I just noticed in the page you referenced 
they only talk about entering an App password if '2-step ver' is on, not 
turning it off.  Just a guess.

I use Thunderbird on mac for two accounts, but each with a different 
provider.  Occasionally I'll get login failures for short periods of 
time but I've always assumed those were problems at one of the providers.



On 3/16/15 11:57 AM, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Last week, Google apparently made some changes in gmail which prevents 
> you from logging in to two different gmail accounts at the same time.  
> (I had two tabs open in Firefox -- one for each of my gmail 
> accounts.)  Until last week, everything worked fine.  Then, as soon as 
> I logged in to one of my accounts in one of the tabs, the other tab 
> would be logged out. Fortunately, it was a simple matter of closing 
> the second tab, and then "add account" to add the other account into 
> the first tab, which now goes back to the old behavior of having two 
> tabs, one in each account.
>
> Unfortunately, I have not found a solution for Thunderbird, which now 
> gives the following error on one of my accounts:
>
>     Sending of password for user kenbrody did not succeed. Mail server
>     pop.gmail.com responded: Web login required:
>     https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=78754
>
> I have tried everything suggested in the given URL, but to no avail.  
> It is always the same gmail account which fails, and the other account 
> always succeeds.
>
> I have even tried exiting Thunderbird, waiting overnight, starting 
> Thunderbird, and trying the failing account first, again to no avail.  
> The other account succeeds, and this one fails.
>
> Note that POP still works on that account, as my iPod is attached to 
> that account, and it still works just fine.  It's apparently just 
> Thunderbird that's failing.
>
> Has anyone else run into this?  Any suggestions?
>