[Gambas-user] Gambas and gmail

Benoît Minisini g4mba5 at gmail.com
Wed May 11 14:35:12 CEST 2022


Le 11/05/2022 à 14:06, T Lee Davidson a écrit :
> On 5/10/22 18:02, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>> Le 10/05/2022 à 23:38, T Lee Davidson a écrit :
>>>
>>> They're simply switching from allowing authentication via 
>>> login/password to requiring authorization via OAuth 2.0 which, as I 
>>> understand it, is more secure. (And, Thunderbird is capable.)
>>>
>>
>> Are you 100% sure?
> 
> Am I sure that Thunderbird is capable of OAuth2? Yes. I have this very 
> mail account set to use it.
> 
> Just go to Account Settings > Server Settings > Security Settings:
> Connection Security: SSL/TLS
> Authentication Method: OAuth2
> 
> You will need to login via Google just the first time to get the app 
> authorization token. After that, it is just as seamless as with a 
> configured login/password.
> 

I got a thunderbird windows to connect to Google, but it does not work.

I enter the e-mail, then the password, and nothing happens. No error 
message, just the text field that is cleared.

-- 
Benoît Minisini


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