Under the Gmail account that you want to enable Oauth2 for, go to Server Settings. In Thunderbird, go to Account Settings in the menu. Once you start the process, you won’t be able to use the email account within Thunderbird until you complete it. In this case it will be for just your emails, not your entire Google account like it does now.
It allows controlled access for an app, to a set of features that you allow. Here I will show you how to change the authentication method on existing accounts from using a saved password, to using a key, namely Oauth2. However, since version 38, Thunderbird has supported Oauth2 with Gmail, so you don’t have to enable “Insecure apps”. To use Thunderbird to access your Gmail account, Google will tell you that you must allow “Insecure apps” in your Google security settings.
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