Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020

Re:Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020 by herf on Friday December 18, 2020 @07:54PM (#25473941)

In Thunderbird, OAuth2 login is still broken. The login page prompts for email again and again, never makes it to the password.

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Re:Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020 by aleph1 on Saturday December 19, 2020 @03:08AM (#25475968)

This could be caused by Google not recognizing and blocking Thunderbird's default user agent; try toggling general.useragent.compatMode.firefox to true (which basically has TB emulate Firefox's user agent)

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Re:Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020 by BugWatch on Saturday December 19, 2020 @06:58AM (#25476876)

Thank you! This worked in my case.

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Re:Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020 by BugWatch on Saturday December 19, 2020 @06:36AM (#25476788)

I am having the same difficulties, and it's giving me a headache. The only workaround was to change the authentication method to "Normal password", and enable the "Allow less secure apps" setting on the Gmail account.

And that's a major PITA since I have 40-ish Gmail accounts. (Why so many? I tend to separate my different concerns for privacy and security reasons.)

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