Thunderbird doesn't accept password/username

[Martin Skjöldebrand]

On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 15:59 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> 
> On 01/28/16 15:48, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
> > Before the community sighing begins.
> > Yes I've double, triple and quadruple checked that the setting to
> > the server are correct.
> > And googled umpteen hits starting with Account can not be verified
> > - most of them
> > telling me GMail changed their login routine ...
> > No, it's not a Gmail account, it's a regular mail server.
> > Yes, other clients (Evolution, KMail) are able to connect and yes
> > I've tried accessing
> > my mail account through webmail.
> > 
> > I still get "Account can not be verified - are you sure your
> > username or password are
> > correct" in Thunderbird.
> > 
> > Any ideas before I apply to the loony bin?
> 
> You're talking about a connection to read your email as opposed to
> sending, correct?  IMAP
> or POP3?

Well yes, IMAP and it's in the setup wizard thingy.


> And what do you have set for "Connection Security" and
> "Authentication Method"?

STARTTLS and Password.

/Martin S
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