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gmail authentication fail

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OfficeFrog
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Thunderbird just keeps asking for the password that I have in the clipboard and use to paste into Google to login. I deleted the old passwords, removed and added the account and no joy. There is no message about blocked attempts from Google. It worked fine yesterday. This happened after a power loss.

Thunderbird just keeps asking for the password that I have in the clipboard and use to paste into Google to login. I deleted the old passwords, removed and added the account and no joy. There is no message about blocked attempts from Google. It worked fine yesterday. This happened after a power loss.

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sfhowes
sfhowes
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If you added the account with the default settings, with OAuth2 authentication, it would have failed due to a bug with Google services. This is fixed in TB 68.2.1, which should be available soon.

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/68.2.1/releasenotes/

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1271783#answer-1262722