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Add gmail account to thunderbird results in "Unable to connect" error in popout

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Hi,

So I am trying to add my gmail to my thunderbird client.

I get into "Set Up Your Existing Email Address" with no issues, I enter full name and email. Then when hitting continue it automatically figures out the imap settings, which after checking are correct. I then click "Done" which opens up a popup window to login to gmail and authenticate, under the url https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?continue=....

So I follow the steps, entering my email, clicking next, enter password, sign in. This takes me to the "Mozilla Thunderbird Email wants to access your Google Account", to which I click allow.

Upon doing this it redirects to 127.0.0.1:8008/index.html - and this then gives the "Unable to connect" page

""" The connection was refused when attempting to contact 127.0.0.1:8008.

   The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
   If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection.
   If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Thunderbird is permitted to access the Web.

"""

Thunderbird never asks for permissions for the windows firewall so I disabled that just in case, but when checking what TCP ports are opened, 8008 is never opened by Thunderbird.

So I try to just close this window and continue but when I close it I then get told by Thunderbird "Unable to log in at server. Probably wrong configuration, username or password". Upon pressing the "Done" button again, it starts the popup again.

Am I missing something?

Hi, So I am trying to add my gmail to my thunderbird client. I get into "Set Up Your Existing Email Address" with no issues, I enter full name and email. Then when hitting continue it automatically figures out the imap settings, which after checking are correct. I then click "Done" which opens up a popup window to login to gmail and authenticate, under the url https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?continue=.... So I follow the steps, entering my email, clicking next, enter password, sign in. This takes me to the "Mozilla Thunderbird Email wants to access your Google Account", to which I click allow. Upon doing this it redirects to 127.0.0.1:8008/index.html - and this then gives the "Unable to connect" page """ The connection was refused when attempting to contact 127.0.0.1:8008. The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments. If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection. If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Thunderbird is permitted to access the Web. """ Thunderbird never asks for permissions for the windows firewall so I disabled that just in case, but when checking what TCP ports are opened, 8008 is never opened by Thunderbird. So I try to just close this window and continue but when I close it I then get told by Thunderbird "Unable to log in at server. Probably wrong configuration, username or password". Upon pressing the "Done" button again, it starts the popup again. Am I missing something?

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Toad-Hall said

Do you have any program that uses 'localhost' eg: Apache If yes, please disable it. After setting up the connection to get OAuth token, you can enable it again.

There are a lot of programs using localhost, the specific key was port 80 on localhost. Disabling nginx (which was only using 127.0.0.1:80) allowed it to succeed.

I appreciate the pointer as it ultimately led to me finding the cause :)

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Do you have any program that uses 'localhost' eg: Apache If yes, please disable it. After setting up the connection to get OAuth token, you can enable it again.

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Your Firewall needs to have Thunderbird as an allowed program.

Thunderbird needs to have cookies enabled to get Oauth set up. Menu icon > Settings > Privacy & Security WEb Content Select checkbox 'Accept cookies from sites'

it may be worth creating an exception - click on 'Exceptions' button Enter: https://accounts.google.com set to 'Allow' click on 'Save Changes'

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Toad-Hall said

Do you have any program that uses 'localhost' eg: Apache If yes, please disable it. After setting up the connection to get OAuth token, you can enable it again.

There are a lot of programs using localhost, the specific key was port 80 on localhost. Disabling nginx (which was only using 127.0.0.1:80) allowed it to succeed.

I appreciate the pointer as it ultimately led to me finding the cause :)