OT: Thunderbird and gmail

[Kenneth Brody]

On 3/16/2015 11:57 AM, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Last week, Google apparently made some changes in gmail which prevents you
[...]
>      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
[...]

Thank you for the tips/suggestions.  After searching all around Google, I 
decided to try a different tactic -- rather than asking Google how to fix 
the error, I decided to check Mozilla / Thunderbird to see if they had a 
solution from their end.

I found this:

     https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-gmail

> Gmail accounts created in or about June 2014 (exact date unknown, Google
> only mentions "second half of 2014" in their new authentication blog post)
> won't work with Thunderbird until the Thunderbird team implements Google's
> non-email-standard authentication. This is currently scheduled for
> Thunderbird 38 which will be released on May 12, 2015. See bug 849540 for
> the full technical details.

So it appears that the answer is that there's nothing I can do until 
Thunderbird implements "Google's non-email-standard authentication".

-- 
Kenneth Brody