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Access to Thunderbird email account

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russ31
russ31

I signed in the wrong gmail account and now I can't get emails on Thunderbird from my Gmail account - Message is "authentication failure while connecting to server imap.gmail.com" Any help would be appreciated.

I signed in the wrong gmail account and now I can't get emails on Thunderbird from my Gmail account - Message is "authentication failure while connecting to server imap.gmail.com" Any help would be appreciated.

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Wayne Mery
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If you have updated to version 91.8.0, check https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/automatic-conversion-google-mail-accounts-oauth20