938012 - Gmail 2 step verification smtp password not stored automatically during autoconfig

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[janot2007]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131025151332

Steps to reproduce:

1. Set new app password in google account security settings
2. Reopen Thunderbird to be asked for new password on mail check
3. Input new password and check your emails successfully
4. Close google account security settings and clear your clipboard (or forget that 16 symbols autogenerated password =O)
5. Try to send email and Thunderbird will ask you for same password for SMTP which you can't restore because of step #4


Actual results:

Thunderbird asks for same password twice:
1) on receiving 
2) on sending 


Expected results:

Thunderbird must set up password for SMTP on step #3 automatically

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

John, can you assist?

Comment 2

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

You can get this password out of Thunderbird to reuse it: go to Preferences -> Security -> Passwords -> Saved Passwords, and find the row for your Gmail IMAP account. Then right-click it and select "Copy Password".

It's not the world's easiest way to do this, but at least it's possible...

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Chris, does this issue still exist?

Comment 4

[Pat Drummond]

My work around was to quit 2-step verification in Gmail security settings. Not really what I wanted...
FYI Win10 Thunderbird IMAP server settings - Connection security: SSL/TLS, Authentication method: OAuth2.
Has SMTP really been failing since Windows 8?! It's labelled oddly: Priority: Not set Severity: normal