{"id":4025,"date":"2019-10-30T20:15:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T20:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/?p=4025"},"modified":"2024-02-15T08:02:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T08:02:23","slug":"thunderbird-unable-to-log-in-at-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/thunderbird-unable-to-log-in-at-server\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solution] Unable to log in at server &#8211; ThunderBird"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"default-content-clss content_4025 type_post \"><p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4026 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/thunderbird-issue-error.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/thunderbird-issue-error.png 700w, https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/thunderbird-issue-error-300x47.png 300w, https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/thunderbird-issue-error-400x62.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thunderbird.net\/\">Thunderbird<\/a><\/span> authentication error<\/h1>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you use Mozilla Thunderbird, you might sometimes see the issue when adding a new account:<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Unable to log in at server. Probably wrong configuration, username or password.<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<p>There could be different reasons for that, but we will list here the most common reasons:<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Gmail<\/h2>\r\n<p>If you use gmail, and use 2-FA (two-step) authentication, then you will need to enter (instead of your gmail password) your <strong>APP PASSWORD<\/strong>. Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.google.com\/apppasswords\">https:\/\/myaccount.google.com\/apppasswords<\/a> and generate it and enter it in <strong>PASSWORD field<\/strong>, when adding an account; and choose &#8220;<strong>AUTODETECT<\/strong>&#8221; instead of <strong>OAuth2.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4030 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/gmail-password-authorization-thunderbird.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"752\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/gmail-password-authorization-thunderbird.png 752w, https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/gmail-password-authorization-thunderbird-300x119.png 300w, https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/gmail-password-authorization-thunderbird-400x159.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>Click <strong>DONE<\/strong>. That&#8217;s all !\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Hope it helped.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"default-content-clss excerpt_4025 type_post \"><p>Thunderbird authentication error If you use Mozilla Thunderbird, you might sometimes see the issue when adding a new account: Unable to log in at server. 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