Closed Bug 1609249 Opened 5 years ago Closed 5 years ago

Thunderbird for Mac (64 bit) missing oauth authentication method for gmail

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(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Unspecified
macOS
defect
Not set
normal

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(Not tracked)

RESOLVED INVALID

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(Reporter: divinorumdevotee, Unassigned)

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0

Steps to reproduce:

See the problem discussion here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1277110
I tried to locate the oauth authentication method for logging into Google gmail accounts - since it will soon be REQUIRED
I was asked to file this report by support techs ...

Actual results:

There is NO oauth authentication for logging into gmail accounts on Thunderbird for Mac: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1277110

Expected results:

According to the Support Techs: Google will very soon stop supporting Thunderbird on Mac because it does not have the required method of authentication: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1277110

Wayne, is there anyone in the development group with a mac that can take a look at this do you know?

Component: Untriaged → General
Flags: needinfo?(vseerror)
OS: Unspecified → macOS
See Also: → 849540

Pedro, can you confirm any issues in this area?

Flags: needinfo?(vseerror) → needinfo?(pedgarrod)

Thunderbird 68.4.1 on Mac OS X 10.13 "High Sierra" ... no sign of Oauth or Oauth2 authentication methods in Manual Config section ...

There's no OAuth2 shown in the manual config unless Thunderbird already knew OAuth can be used., so that is no surprise. It works this way because just saying OAuth2 can't work unless OAuth2 support is set up for that particular provider inside Thunderbird.

But I don't know why it wouldn't detect and set OAuth2 to begin with. Did you try with a new profile? Maybe you set the hidden pref not to look up from ISPDB? Or that call is blocked? You can open the Developer Tools and look at the Network tab to see what's going on.

I did discover Oauth2 as an authentication method ... just now ... in a different area of TB 68.4.1.

It is hiding in the Server Settings section of the Account Settings panel. Now I need to know what, if anything, I need to do to successfully switch to it.
But I doubt this is much of a bug anymore ... Seeing as how it IS apparently in there!

(ON my next post I'll click the resolve as INVALID Button.)

I followed these instructions and got everything set up OK and "Very Secure" with Gmail Account: https://www.supertechcrew.com/thunderbird-oauth2-gmail/
So, no bug. Closed.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Flags: needinfo?(pedgarrod)
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