You will need to configure gmail to accept POP3. You will need to manually sign into your gmail account and enter the setup section which took me forever to find. One of my frustrations is that it took me all day to discover that for my user name they wanted my email address. Your migration might be easy or it might take hours and hours and be frustrating. Just remember, it's not a bible and your settings may be different. The instructions in this link are reasonably good. For those of us who still used POP3 the migration was a nightmare. Just wanted to put in here in case anyone else had an issue, if it hasn't already been discussed.A year ago my long suffering ISP made a deal with Google and migrated its email service to gmail. Before doing so, Tbird was stuck in saying: login to server with username failed, to all my gmail accounts, which froze Thunderbird.

I had to do this for my 10+ gmail accounts, but when done, I was able to open Tbird.

If you have more accounts, you then have to log out of the gmail account again, and go to again, and run through the questions again for the next email.Įach time, you have to log out of gmail, go to that special website of, confirm recovery info and answer questions. It may ask another question or two, then it okays. I then went to the website:, and logged into my first gmail account, putting in the password, then it asks you to confirm either your recovery email or phone number. That’s about it, so here’s what fixed my particular issue with the “login to server failed” issue:įirstly, log out of your gmail account at. How to Fix “login to server failed” for Mozilla Thunderbird using Google Mail IMAP Restarted computer after midnight, and when I tried to open Thunderbird, all my gmail accounts (a bunch) had an issue with the passwords, it said:

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