Follow up from my two cent input yesterday. Best to disregard the app password idea I tabled yesterday. I did some email administration yesterday and it looks like the industry is doing away with app passwords for reasons that are probably obvious to everyone on this email forum. I discovered yesterday that Google is discontinuing app passwords in gmail on May 30, 2022. I suspect Microsoft already has.
On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 7:11 PM William Park via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > OK. Got the latest Thunderbird working on my old settings and data. To > select the "default" profile, you have to > > (1) thunderbird --ProfileManager > > or > > (2) Help -> More Troubleshooting Information -> Application Basics -> > Profiles -> "about:profiles" > > Online docs says to click "Open Directory". But, it pops up Audacious > music player. Crazy. > > > On 4/23/22 13:34, William Park via talk wrote: > > I'm using Thunderbird 68.12esr. I just downloaded Thunderbird-91.8.1 > > (latest), and found that it doesn't import settings from the old one. > > WTF! It'll take a week to regenerate all the filter rules and account > > settings. OS needs upgrading too. :-( > > Thanks Seneca. > > > > On 4/23/22 11:21 AM, Seneca Cunningham via talk wrote: > >> UofT made some changes recently with authentication, disabling what > >> they’re calling “legacy authentication”. These days, it’s OAUTH2 or > >> you’re stuck with webmail. First, you need to ensure that you’re > >> using Thunderbird 77.0b1 at the minimum. Then, you can follow the > >> instructions in the email they sent about this in March: > >> > https://its.utoronto.ca/improving-information-security-by-disabling-legacy-authentication/ > >> > >> > >>> On Apr 17, 2022, at 21:06, William Park via talk <[email protected]> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> To those with @alumni.utoronto.ca email account, > >>> > >>> I have an old UofT account, and I'm trying to set it up in Thunderbird. > >>> > >>> (1) Getting Email: > >>> > >>> I can download via IMAP. But can't via POP3. Is it same experience > >>> for other people? > >>> > >>> (2) Sending Email: > >>> > >>> I can't send email via their SMTP server. Thunderbird asks for > >>> password which errors out. > >>> > >>> --- > >>> Post to this mailing list [email protected] > >>> Unsubscribe from this mailing list > >>> https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > >> > >> > >> --- > >> Post to this mailing list [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe from this mailing list > >> https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > >> > > --- > > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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