Logging into your Gmail webmail account using a browser.

If you don't want it to automatically configure your account press the 'Manual Config' button in the second screen of 'Mail Account Setup'.Īfter you create the POP/IMAP account in Thunderbird enable using the POP or IMAP server with your account by: It defaults to a IMAP account but you can tell it to use a POP account instead using a radio button. All you need to know is your email address and password, it will configure the account settings for you. You can create a new account by pressing the Add Mail Account button in Tools -> Account Settings -> Account Actions. To add an account in Thunderbird you need to have a Gmail webmail account, create either a POP or IMAP account in Thunderbird and then enable it in Gmail settings using a browser.

Gmail provides free webmail accounts and POP, IMAP and SMTP servers.

So, in my particular case, this is how to fix the error “login to server failed” using Thunderbird Gmail and IMAP.This article was written for Thunderbird but also applies to Mozilla Suite / SeaMonkey (though some menu sequences may differ). login to your Gmail account (don’t know if this is necessary).That’s about it, so here’s what fixed my particular issue with the “ login to server failed” issue: How to Fix “login to server failed” for Mozilla Thunderbird using Google Mail IMAP If necessary, enter the letters in the distorted picture. #3 If you’re still having problems, visit and sign in with your Gmail username and password.

Upon visiting the link above, I used option #3: Log in to your Gmail account in the browser, and unlock the CAPTCHA. It had something to do with unlocking Google’s Captcha: As things would have it a post on the Mozilla forum from 2008 answered my issue. It wasn’t the easiest thing to find a solution, and oddly (and this is in my particular case) all the newer posts don’t seem to fix my particular issue. I recently setup a Google Apps email and I’m using Thunderbird with IMAP as the client on a Windows 7 machine.

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