Setting Up a gmail Alias Address
I use an email address from IEEE, blah_blah@ieee.org. Underlying that is gmail. I've just installed thunderbird on a new computer (the first one in many years). I went into the Account Setup screen, entered my address and the password that goes with it, and Firefox couldn't find the server or it's settings. That's no surprise, since it's actually gmail. So in the manual configuration settings, I changed the hostnames (incoming and outgoing) to gmail.com, but Thunderbird still could not find the settings.
What do I need to do to make this work?
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Maybe if you post a screenshot of your settings for incoming and outgoing servers,some ideas will surface. My suggestion, not knowing how the IEEE setup is, would be to use normal gmail settings, include the IEEE id, omit password. That would be: - incoming: imap.gmail.com 993 SSL/TLS Oauth2 - outgoing smtp.gmail.com 465 SSL/TLS Oauth2
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If it is an alias, you need to set up a regular gmail account and then add the alias. Omit the password during setup, as Gmail does Oauth2 authentication and will assign a unique code for the account.
I have a gmail account, blah_blah@gmail.com, and it's not connected to the ieee.org account. I may be using the vocabulary wrong, if "alias" has a particular meaning that I shouldn't have used.
An ieee.org email address comes with my IEEE membership, but it's actually a gmail account "in disguise" so to speak. I can reach it on the gmail web interface by going to gmail.com to log in, and entering the @ieee.org address. I'm then redirected to an IEEE site to finish logging in, and then I'm back to the gmail web interface. So "alias" maybe isn't the right word. But whatever the right word is, I want to use Thunderbird for this account. I've done this before, but the computer I had for many years died a few years ago, and I'm finally setting up a new one.
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Maybe if you post a screenshot of your settings for incoming and outgoing servers,some ideas will surface. My suggestion, not knowing how the IEEE setup is, would be to use normal gmail settings, include the IEEE id, omit password. That would be: - incoming: imap.gmail.com 993 SSL/TLS Oauth2 - outgoing smtp.gmail.com 465 SSL/TLS Oauth2
That did it. Thanks!
You're very welcome.