![]() ![]() What I'll do now is migrate that ~/.thunderbird directory to the rest of the computers around the house. If you don't know, find someone you trust who does know. I don't recall exactly when this was implemented, but it has been a while now.Īnd, good on the friend for calling you to ensure that it's legit. It's not a new thing - it's just (potentially) broken and a bit of a pain. It has been a necessary step for at least a few years. I even had to load the pages in a browser.Īnd, yeah, they should have had to do this when they first configured Thunderbird. In my case, it wouldn't load the 2nd part of the authentication without restarting Thunderbird. I guess it's a part of that 'single sign-on' thing we've been after for a couple of decades, but there's many providers that will let you do similar. Yeah, it's a part of the OAuth used by a number of services, such as using your Google account to login to a site without going through the regular registration and all that. If you do, then the above is what it took for me to get it working. I like the new look, I suppose.īut, again, hopefully, you have an easier time of it than I had. They didn't move too many things around, so it will be familiar enough. ![]() I hope you don't have as much trouble as I had. Agree to that and it should work for you. This time around, the popup screen should ask you if you want to add Thunderbird as an authorized application. You may need to authenticate again at this point but I only had to do so with one of the two accounts. You may want to use a different browser for each email address.Ĭlose Thunderbird again. This time, copy the URL in the popup window and open it in a new tab in your browser. I deal with so much email that this elevated my heart rate a little.Ĭlose Thunderbird and start again. At least it didn't work here on my system. If you use any of the MSFT email addresses, you'll get a pop up window to authenticate. Anyhow, as I use hotmail/outlook email addresses, Thunderbird wasn't letting the OAuth (the authentication used instead of plain passwords) work. ![]()
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