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google blocks thunderbird

Thunderbird Troubleshooting
Zenos replied 9 years ago
LBRO
LBRO

Google seems to be blocking mail to my Tbird account saying it is a "less secure" app. I've attached the message received from Google. My s.j.palubinski-04@alumni.lboro.ac.uk account is affected, but not others so far. This occurred when I started Tbird which then downloads IMAP mail from the above noted account. The Google message implies that I can still allow access to my mail by Thunderbird, but only by dropping security screening of all apps. What's going on? Is there something I can do?

Steve

Google seems to be blocking mail to my Tbird account saying it is a "less secure" app. I've attached the message received from Google. My s.j.palubinski-04@alumni.lboro.ac.uk account is affected, but not others so far. This occurred when I started Tbird which then downloads IMAP mail from the above noted account. The Google message implies that I can still allow access to my mail by Thunderbird, but only by dropping security screening of all apps. What's going on? Is there something I can do? Steve
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Zenos
Zenos

You can use OAuth2 or two-factor authentication or application-specific passwords.

https://myaccount.google.com/security#signin