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sudden dificulty to connect thunderbird to my account imap.gmail.com

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Alain GEDIN
Alain GEDIN

Thunderbird start searching the host at imap.gmail.com and fail .

Thunderbird start searching the host at imap.gmail.com and fail .

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using a VPN or some other DNS messing up service? It sounds like it, as Thunderbird knows the settings for Gmail and where to find them. Have you enabled DNS over HTTPS in settings? if not tuning that on might help.

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using a VPN or some other DNS messing up service? It sounds like it, as Thunderbird knows the settings for Gmail and where to find them. Have you enabled DNS over HTTPS in settings? if not tuning that on might help.

Alain GEDIN
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Thks Matt .That works . but i suppress my account Gmail on Thunderbird and reinstall it again checking all the items. Useful support Thks

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