[GTALUG] U of T alumni mail + Thunderbird

[Nigel Auger]

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 <talk at gtalug.org>
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 <talk at gtalug.org>
> >>> 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.
> >>>
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