Thunderbird and security

[Phil]

On 10/01/2014 09:57 AM, Peter Smout wrote:
> On 01/10/14 00:29, Phil wrote:
>> Thank you for reading this.
>>
>> I have a need for a Gmail account but I'm blocked from accessing it from
>> Thunderbird. Google considers Thunderbird to be less secure that their
>> own mail client but there is an option to allow for less secure mail
>> clients. Of course Google dose not recommend this option.
>>
>> Is accessing Gmail from Thunderbird really a security? I suspect that
>> it's not.
>>
> FTIW I have a Gmail account and I'm sending this using t-bird and
> they've never told me anything of the kind!! From day 1 I put the
> settings into t-bird and it just worked (tm)!
>

Thanks Pete,

Just for interests sake here is the page that I was referring to:

https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps

-- 
Regards,
Phil