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(In reply to Alex Schmitz from comment #21)
> > Now, if you try to repeat the above STR steps #3 and #4 and use Authentication Method: Normal Password, account creation WILL fail. I tried it twice to make sure I wasn't going insane.
> 
> > Seems that needing Authentication Method: Autodetect during manual IMAP setup is required.
> 
> I CANNOT confirm this i did this doing normal password NOT autodetect

So weird, I let it choose Normal Password and it DID work this time. I just tested twice. I swear I tried this two times previously and it failed. In any event Alex, Authentication Method: Normal Password does seem to work.(In reply to Toby Pilling [:tobyp] from comment #11)
> Thanks Arthur,
> You can open a command prompt (not powershell) and use the following:
> 
> set MOZ_LOG=timestamp,IMAP:5
> set MOZ_LOG_FILE=output.txt
> "C:\Program Files\Thunderbird Daily\thunderbird.exe" -no-remote -profile "C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\<PROFILE>"
> 
> There is more detail here:
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:Logging?_gl=1*1v8k5z8*_ga*MTI5ODQ1ODk5OS4xNzE1NjA1NTQz*_ga_2VC139B3XV*czE3NTMyMTM4Mzgkbzc0JGcwJHQxNzUzMjE0MjY3JGo2MCRsMCRoMA..#Gecko_Logging

Tried to get some logging output with the above but the output.txt file has 0KB. Double checked I'm doing it right and event went to the provided link for reference but it's still not outputting.
(In reply to Alex Schmitz from comment #21)
> > Now, if you try to repeat the above STR steps #3 and #4 and use Authentication Method: Normal Password, account creation WILL fail. I tried it twice to make sure I wasn't going insane.
> 
> > Seems that needing Authentication Method: Autodetect during manual IMAP setup is required.
> 
> I CANNOT confirm this i did this doing normal password NOT autodetect

So weird, I let it choose Normal Password and it DID work this time. I just tested twice. I swear I tried this two times previously and it failed. In any event Alex, Authentication Method: Normal Password does seem to work.

(In reply to Toby Pilling [:tobyp] from comment #11)
> Thanks Arthur,
> You can open a command prompt (not powershell) and use the following:
> 
> set MOZ_LOG=timestamp,IMAP:5
> set MOZ_LOG_FILE=output.txt
> "C:\Program Files\Thunderbird Daily\thunderbird.exe" -no-remote -profile "C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\<PROFILE>"
> 
> There is more detail here:
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:Logging?_gl=1*1v8k5z8*_ga*MTI5ODQ1ODk5OS4xNzE1NjA1NTQz*_ga_2VC139B3XV*czE3NTMyMTM4Mzgkbzc0JGcwJHQxNzUzMjE0MjY3JGo2MCRsMCRoMA..#Gecko_Logging

Tried to get some logging output with the above but the output.txt file has 0KB. Double checked I'm doing it right and event went to the provided link for reference but it's still not outputting.

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