Subj : Re: gmail + imap + TB
To   : August Abolins
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Thu Dec 17 2020 03:08 pm

Hi August,

On 2020-12-17 08:56:00, you wrote to me:

 WvV>> I had the same thing in my older TB (52.1.0) happen to me this week.
 WvV>> It popped up a browser window in TB with the google login screen.
 WvV>> First I couldn't get past this, untill I enabled "accept all
 WvV>> cookies"..

 AA> I was in an AnyDesk session with the computer last night. The
 AA> connection was slow as hell.  The person has a satellite
 AA> solution for internet.  Even a basic visit google.ca took
 AA> minutes.

 AA> After an hour poking around as best as I could and trying to
 AA> help her remember her gmail password, I called it a night. I
 AA> think I spent about 70% of time waiting for the internet to
 AA> respond.

 AA> So.. maybe there is a timing issue that triggers the login
 AA> prompt?

That could be a factor. When it started here, I was syncing files between the two desktops, so the available bandwith for the computer with TB running was very limited. However after the sync job was finished, and after restarting TB the problem remained...

 WvV>> ..moving everything over to a new desktop computer with
 WvV>> a newer TB, that seems to access the gmail account just
 WvV>> fine. I have no intention to fix it in the older TB.

 AA> Interesting.  Now I have to wonder what TB version I was
 AA> dealing with. Would TB version info be passed to Gmail when
 AA> used in an imap configuration?

It's more likely related to different behaviour between two different TB versions towards the gmail imap server.

 AA> Maybe I can check some archived emails from her and look in the
 AA> headers.

Checking doesn't hurt! ;)


Bye, Wilfred.

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