New Thunderbird account not connecting to gmail account

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2024-02-17 at 09:43 +1000, Phil wrote:
> Thunderbird automatically sets up the account and authorisation but 
> Google continually asks for the password but refuses the connection 
> claiming the password is incorrect. Of course the password is
> correct otherwise web mail wouldn't work.

This may not be helpful, but I have a vague memory of having to set up
some additional thing, an additional auth (not MFA as such, like an
extra password or code or token or something) to use gmail with a non-
gmail account, or forward gmail to a non-gmail account.

Sorry so vague.

Regards, K.

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