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With version 153: Unable to send from gmail account. And cannot create a new gmail account - spun forever.

Thunderbird Account management
Wayne Mery replied
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After the last update of Thunderbird, we lost the ability to send gmail messages from our pop gmail account. We only got incoming messages when we restarted thunderbird. We've worked for 6 hours with Claude Opus and it finally gave up. Out AOL account and our comcast accounts still work. We tried to create a new imap account in gmail and that spins forever. Account does not get created. the last error message was " Error Creating Account - Incoming server already exists."

Then we tried deleting the pop account and then creating a imap account and that also spun forever failing to create an account. Webmail works.

After the last update of Thunderbird, we lost the ability to send gmail messages from our pop gmail account. We only got incoming messages when we restarted thunderbird. We've worked for 6 hours with Claude Opus and it finally gave up. Out AOL account and our comcast accounts still work. We tried to create a new imap account in gmail and that spins forever. Account does not get created. the last error message was " Error Creating Account - Incoming server already exists." Then we tried deleting the pop account and then creating a imap account and that also spun forever failing to create an account. Webmail works.

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Wayne Mery
Wayne Mery
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Please post a screen shot of where the account creating is spinning. Do you have a VPN?

Wayne Mery
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After obtaining screen shot, also try ...

In Thunderbird > Settings > Config Editor make mailnews.oauth.usePrivateBrowser=true, mailnews.oauth.useSchemeRedirect=false Adding the mailnews.oauth.usePrivateBrowser=true

Please post your results.

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