As so many others here.... *shake fist at Google* ...
I did the switch to OAUTH2 for both POP and SMTP. I deleted the passwords, dumped the cookie cache, accept cookies … (читать ещё)
As so many others here.... *shake fist at Google* ...
I did the switch to OAUTH2 for both POP and SMTP. I deleted the passwords, dumped the cookie cache, accept cookies from sites (always on 3rd party; keep until I close thunderbird), added an exception for https://accounts.google.com , then closed and started a fresh session of Thunderbird (currently on version 91.9.1 - the latest in my Ubuntu repos).
When I start Thunderbird, it asks for the user/password and then it downloads new messages. Great.
Except every few minutes, it asks me to re-authenticate for /every/ gmail account. Grrr....
Per the below comment, it seems that Thunderbird is supposed to save the password... but it doesn't. I still have passwords for all the non-google accounts, but I dumped all the gmail passwords per the many many instructions I've found. There's also nothing from google in the cookies (however, I've gone to other sites like the Thunderbird addons and those cookies do show up in the list).
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1375538#answer-1501083
I found someone saying that web servers might be a problem, I have no webservers installed on this system and nothing is listening to ports 80 or 443.
How do I get gmail to stop pestering me every few minutes for my user/pass and force Thunderbird to save the OAUTH2 token?
Thanks!