Pop3 setup for Gmail in Thunderbird

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It seems that Thunderbird wants to discourage Pop3 setups. I’m not accomplishing this manually.  Can someone provide the proper setup parameters to access Gmail on Thunderbird for POP3?

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It’s me again.  Just want to add that I need the set up for Mac which I think differs from Windows.

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This works on Windows, I don’t know what Server differences there would be for a Mac.

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windbg

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Forgot to add the SMTP settings.

(Edited – first insert inadvertently put in a Juno. Sorry.)

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Thank you so much PaulK for taking the time and effort to detail your settings.  I used them and hit the same road block as before.  At first I get a confirmation that the info is correct (that Thunderbird found the account) but when I progress it doesn’t work.  I have decided to leave the account as IMAC.

Thanks again for your response.

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Have you set Gmail to authorize POP downloads?
Log into your Gmail account via a browser.
Near the top right corner, click on the gear: Settings
Quick settings > See all settings
Forwarding and POP/IMAP
Shown below is that ‘POP is enabled’. The default is disabled.

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Yes I set Gmail to authorize POP.  Interestingly enough even when POP is enabled in Gmail Thunderbird only works with IMAP, even though IMAP was not enabled in Gmail.  I don’t know if this is a Mac thing or Thunderbird does not like POP.

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I use Thunderbird on Windows with two different email providers. One is IMAP and the other is POP3. It handles mail from both without any problems.

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Create a NEW Thunderbird Profile (“Test”?) and define a new Account.
Ensure that it is POP from the beginning.
The existing account definition may be corrupted.

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I did create two different profiles — one for my husband’s gmail and one for mine.  I appreciate your help but at this point I’m completely stumped.    Actually, I do not like Thunderbird — on the Mac the font is extremely small and I do not find it as user friendly as GMail.  My reason for making Thunderbird accounts is that if my internet connection fails (which it has been doing lately when I wake the computer from sleep) I can still read the emails.  I prefer POP to IMAC because I think it is a simpler interface but since the Thunderbid account is only for emergency use I can live with it.

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For a corrupted T Bird setup, an uninstall and reinstall is probably needed.  After uninstalling, look for remnants under your user name and anywhere else.  Like many programs it saves some info for reinstalls.  I have to do that occasionally on Windows when add ons don’t work after an update, a real pain.

T Bird was handed off from Mozilla to an independent developer a few years ago who really messed it up.  Mozilla took it back a year or so ago and has improved it dramatically in the meantime.  Still needs work but it’s stable.

I’m not familiar with MacOS but there has to be a setting somewhere that will scale the program differently, similar to dpi settings in windows.  For Windows, right click the T Bird executable, click properties, click compatibility, click high dpi settings.  There are also scaling settings in Settings.  Big Linux distros have these features, I’d guess MacOS too, somewhere.

When T Bird went haywire with the other developers I spent forever looking for a decent replacement and couldn’t find one, paid or free.  Email clients aren’t as popular as they once were.

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