Gmail in Fedora-31 -

[Bob Goodwin]

I have been unable to create a gmail account in Thunderbird 68 or 70 in 
this computer although I was able to do that when booted to Fedora-29 on 
a separate drive. I suspect there may be a problem of which I am not 
aware between google and Mozilla security? ...

Or am I doing something wrong, has any one else had this problem?

Bob

[Ed Greshko]

On 11/15/19 3:32 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> I have been unable to create a gmail account in Thunderbird 68 or 70 in this computer although I was able to do that when booted to Fedora-29 on a separate drive. I suspect there may be a problem of which I am not aware between google and Mozilla security? ...
>
> Or am I doing something wrong, has any one else had this problem?

Using an existing gmail account I was unable to get the T-Bird supplied by Fedora to authenticate
and use it.

I downloaded the latest T-Bird from Mozilla and had no problems to use the existing gmail with it.

Additionally, the T-Bird from Fedora didn't recognize that I had configured the account.

Suggest you file a BZ.

[Ed Greshko]

On 11/15/19 8:01 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 11/15/19 3:32 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> > I have been unable to create a gmail account in Thunderbird 68 or 70 in this computer although I was able to do that when booted to Fedora-29 on a separate drive. I suspect there may be a problem of which I am not aware between google and Mozilla security? ...
> >
> > Or am I doing something wrong, has any one else had this problem?
>
> Using an existing gmail account I was unable to get the T-Bird supplied by Fedora to authenticate
> and use it.
>
> I downloaded the latest T-Bird from Mozilla and had no problems to use the existing gmail with it.
>
> Additionally, the T-Bird from Fedora didn't recognize that I had configured the account.
>
> Suggest you file a BZ.

Oh, well.  I went ahead and submitted https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1772731

[Bob Goodwin]

On 11/14/19 8:55 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 11/15/19 8:01 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > On 11/15/19 3:32 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> > > I have been unable to create a gmail account in Thunderbird 68 or 70 
> > > in this computer although I was able to do that when booted to 
> > > Fedora-29 on a separate drive. I suspect there may be a problem of 
> > > which I am not aware between google and Mozilla security? ...
> > >
> > > Or am I doing something wrong, has any one else had this problem?
> >
> > Using an existing gmail account I was unable to get the T-Bird 
> > supplied by Fedora to authenticate
> > and use it.
> >
> > I downloaded the latest T-Bird from Mozilla and had no problems to 
> > use the existing gmail with it.
> >
> > Additionally, the T-Bird from Fedora didn't recognize that I had 
> > configured the account.
> >
> > Suggest you file a BZ.
>
> Oh, well.  I went ahead and submitted 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1772731

.

Good, it took me this long to download, unpack, install, configure, and 
determine that Thunderbird 68.2.2 did work with Gmail as you said it 
did, then I had to create my Fastmail.us account to get this message to 
respond to. And Mpzilla version does work while the Fedora verssions do 
not. I'll add to your BZ in the morning.

Thanks for the help,

Bob

[Ed Greshko]

On 11/15/19 10:52 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> On 11/14/19 8:55 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > On 11/15/19 8:01 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > > On 11/15/19 3:32 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> > > > I have been unable to create a gmail account in Thunderbird 68 or 70 in this computer although I was able to do that when booted to Fedora-29 on a separate drive. I suspect there may be a problem of which I am not aware between google and Mozilla security? ...
> > > >
> > > > Or am I doing something wrong, has any one else had this problem?
> > >
> > > Using an existing gmail account I was unable to get the T-Bird supplied by Fedora to authenticate
> > > and use it.
> > >
> > > I downloaded the latest T-Bird from Mozilla and had no problems to use the existing gmail with it.
> > >
> > > Additionally, the T-Bird from Fedora didn't recognize that I had configured the account.
> > >
> > > Suggest you file a BZ.
> >
> > Oh, well.  I went ahead and submitted https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1772731
>
> .
>
> Good, it took me this long to download, unpack, install, configure, and determine that Thunderbird 68.2.2 did work with Gmail as you said it did, then I had to create my Fastmail.us account to get this message to respond to. And Mpzilla version does work while the Fedora verssions do not. I'll add to your BZ in the morning.
>
> Thanks for the help,

Actually, no need to add to that BZ.

I am closing it as the thunderbird in updates-testing fixes the problem.

[Ed Greshko]

On 11/15/19 11:29 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> I am closing it as the thunderbird in updates-testing fixes the problem.

I'm not actually closing it yet.

While the updates-testing version does fix the initial problem there is still the case
where Mozilla T-Bird is not interoperable with Fedora supplied T-Bird. IMO, they should
be.

[Ed Greshko]

On 11/15/19 11:35 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> While the updates-testing version does fix the initial problem there is still the case
> where Mozilla T-Bird is not interoperable with Fedora supplied T-Bird. IMO, they should
> be.

Well, it seems this isn't quite as "simple" as I thought it would be.  I think there is a
versioning logic in play.  So, I think I'll close the BZ.