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Hi.

Recently Gmail keeps asking if Thunderbird can access my account. I neglected to screen cap the dialog but will do so and post here the next time it asks.

I am able to access Gmail without error through thunderbird, and accepting or declining the Gmail dialog seems to have no effect.

Wondering if anyone else is having this experience and how to prevent it. It's annoying but not preventing access.

I have Thunderbird launching at startup and running 24x7. I also periodically sleep, hibernate, or shut down my hp Envy Windows 11 laptop.

Thanks.

Rich

My email host requires changes to connection settings (this is for an existing account), specifically to increase security but also specifying new incoming and outgoing server names.

I have meticulously copied the settings provided by the host for this purpose but Thunderbird will not (cannot?) connect to the server.

Thunderbird is not asking for my password, nor does the password appear in TB's 'Saved Passwords'.

So I tried 'Add Mail Account', entered all the new settings manually, but TB responds 'Incoming server already exists' (presumably because I had already changed the existing account settings?) - see screenshot.

Should I remove the existing account before trying 'Add Mail Account'? Although that would seem unlikely to work, since the existing account with the new settings does not connect.

Support from my email (and broadband) host has been practically useless, so I thought I would ask the wonderful brains on TB forum if they can give me any clue as to where things are going wrong?

This happened after a Win10 update and caused a PC to auto reboot overnight. User came in and tried to start Thunderbird and there was nothing there. Here is a screenshot of what it looks like when Thunderbird opens:

https://i.imgur.com/CX9QOma.png

What's weird is, if you go to the address book tab, the email addys are there and if you search for a contact or a keyword in the search bar, it shows the messages. But there's no accounts showing at all. I did some search on Google and I haven't found anything that helps so far. The closest I came to what I was hoping was going to be a solutions was this:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1402124

But it doesn't appear that the JS file is corrupt because there are none of the 2 other JS files mentioned in that solution that shows the pref.js file to be corrupted. But if I open that JS file, I get this error:

https://i.imgur.com/JAv908Y.png

So I'm not sure if it's corrupted or not? I'm at a loss as to what to try next. I've tried re-importing that profile and I get an error when I try that, so I'm not really sure what direction to go next. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This is the most current version of Thunderbird (128.9.1esr)

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