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Gmail quit working

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napaneedlepoint
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Up until Tuesday Thunderbird & Gmail were working fine & have een for years. Suddenly when I tried to get my messages on June 7, I got the message: "Sending of password for user napaneedlepoint did not succeed. Mail server pop.googlemail.com responded: Username and password not accepted."

I can get to Gmail just fine from my browser. I checked preferences & the passwrds are right. I have tried closing & opening Thunderbird several times -- no change. i shut my Mac down every night. No change each morning.

I dowloaded 91.8.0 and reinstalled -- no change.

I see nothing about oAuth in my passwords section & no option to see this. I run my business using this & this is a huge HUGE problem.

Please help!

Up until Tuesday Thunderbird & Gmail were working fine & have een for years. Suddenly when I tried to get my messages on June 7, I got the message: "Sending of password for user napaneedlepoint did not succeed. Mail server pop.googlemail.com responded: Username and password not accepted." I can get to Gmail just fine from my browser. I checked preferences & the passwrds are right. I have tried closing & opening Thunderbird several times -- no change. i shut my Mac down every night. No change each morning. I dowloaded 91.8.0 and reinstalled -- no change. I see nothing about oAuth in my passwords section & no option to see this. I run my business using this & this is a huge HUGE problem. Please help!

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david
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Oauth is an authentication setting done in serversettings. remove any gmail password and the connect. Google will prompt for your web password to authenticate.

napaneedlepoint
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Tried that just now. it did not work. Still getting the same message.

Please, please help!

david
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Check your smtp server to see if the old password is there or if it still shows normal password for authentication.