Thumderbird and Android Gmail account

[BarkingGhostar]

Way back when T-Mobile launched the MyTouch3G phone I had to create a Google Gmail account for it. I did this and thankfully I used it sparingly and no Spam resulted. When I moved away from that cell phone 18 months later I still maintained the Gmail account and to this day I can log into it via the web interface.

I was planning on re-purposing the Gmail account, but I wanted to set it up in Mozilla Thunderbird first. I've previously setup another Google Gmail account for POP/SMTP use with great success but this Android/Gmail account just will not setup.

If I ignore the password option during Thunderbird account setup it creates everything like it should. And during the setup I got a warning when I logged into the account via browser that I needed to enable Less Secure apps, which I did.

But when I try to get Thunderbird to access pop.gmail.com I get the following response which seems to indicate Gmail accounts created for Android devices (just cell phones?) can only be accessed through web interfaces.

Are there two kinds of Google Gmail products?

 

[lxskllr]

I've run into stuff like that from other providers; most recently Yandex. They changed the rules, which I suspect is for the easier delivery of ads. Try submitting a support ticket. Automating Yandex acceptance "required" my phone#, which I don't give out. A support ticket fixed it up.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Let the setup acquire the setting automatically and make sure that gmail is set to allow pop access before you try it.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Let the setup acquire the setting automatically and make sure that gmail is set to allow pop access before you try it.

I tried that and it reported it unsuccessful. Since I had an already working Gmail POP account setup in Thunderbird, I simply mirrored the settings with the exception of username (email addr) and password.

I'm wondering if this particular instance is a different Gmail product that is either more restrictive or uses a different set of settings. I can probably get it done using the IMAP, but that isn't really what I want.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Resolved. While I thought I had turned on allowance for the Less Secure apps, which Google defines Thunderbird to be, it never did it. Apparently I have just recorded an instance of an Unknown Device trying to access the POP and until I admitted it was me it wouldn't turn on Less Secure apps feature.

Done and done.