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mutsuura
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gmail login failure (recent)

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I've been using SM version 2.49.5 up 'til recently w/ Authentication method set to "normal" - has worked for years.

Suddenly over past week or so logging into gmail has been failing consistently using 'normal' authentication method.
Upgraded to 2.53.12 w/ same negative results.

I changed Authentication method to OAuth2 and that seems to work.

Has there been a change in gmail's login policy that now requires OAuth2?

Thx - Attila
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DanRaisch
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Yes, it's a change on Gmail's side, not a bug in SeaMonkey.

Moving to SeaMonkey Support.
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bhurter
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Post by bhurter »

I had the same problem.

In the Server Settings, all I had to do was change Authentication Method to OAuth2 then a window pops up asking for you to log in to your gmail account then allow Seamonkey to access.

Works fine now.
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Hi, I set up the OAuth2 in the pop server and I was then able to get my email. However I cannot send any email, the connection to the server times out. I corrected the outgoing server port to 587 as required by gmail, and then I tried the OAuth2 selection for the outgoing server---still times out? Any suggestions?
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kpdandjad wrote:[....] However I cannot send any email, the connection to the server times out. I corrected the outgoing server port to 587 as required by gmail, and then I tried the OAuth2 selection for the outgoing server---still times out? Any suggestions?
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Peter Creasey
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kpdandjad wrote:Hi, I set up the OAuth2 in the pop server and I was then able to get my email. However I cannot send any email, the connection to the server times out. I corrected the outgoing server port to 587 as required by gmail, and then I tried the OAuth2 selection for the outgoing server---still times out? Any suggestions?
Did you set the connection security to STARTTLS? Then it should work.
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Post by brough »

As others I had problems receiving Mails from Gmail.

Learned through you here to chance to OAuth2.

However now I have a new problem: The STAT command did not succeed. Error getting message number and sizes. Mail server pop.gmail.com responded: Invalid credentials.

Any ideas?

Thanks Joerg
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Post by kpdandjad »

I was able to get problem fixed, corrected outgoing port, and had to receive the FA2 password from google which I pasted into the password file.
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