Thunderbird doesn't accept password/username

[Ed Greshko]

On 01/28/16 16:43, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
> 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.

Have you tried SSL/TLS instead?


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