New Thunderbird account not connecting to gmail account - solved

[Phil]

On 17/2/24 11:03, Karl Auer wrote:
> 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.

Thank you Karl for your reply.

I've spent hours on this and out of desperation I thought I'd set up 
another gmail account for my relative. Both gmail accounts work and 
e-mails can be sent to and from each other. For some unfathomable reason 
the second gmail account also works with Thunderbird but the first one 
will not. Both accounts are identical except the second account has one 
less character in the password and two extra characters in the e-mail 
address.

Now the hard part begins; showing her how to send and receive e-mails.

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Regards,
Phil
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