
- #UPDATE GMAIL PASSWORD MAIL FOR MAC HOW TO#
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The following applies to both POP and IMAP mail accounts.
#UPDATE GMAIL PASSWORD MAIL FOR MAC HOW TO#
For more details and how to resolve various OAuth issues, see Automatic Conversion of Google mail accounts to OAuth 2.0 Authentication. If something goes wrong, you can use the hints below to check and set up manually.
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Thunderbird will normally set up or update your Gmail account to OAuth automatically. ( Tools > Account Settings… Edit > Account Settings…) See IMAP Synchronization for more information. To change how messages are downloaded, set synchronization options for the account and for individual folders.

If you don't synchronize a folder, the message header will still be displayed in Thunderbird, but the message content will only be downloaded when you click on the message header. This allows you to define which folder should be synchronized. If you want to see all your Gmail labels and messages in Thunderbird but prefer to avoid all the messages being downloaded to your system, you may want to tweak the synchronization settings. However, the Gmail label (Thunderbird folder) will not be displayed. They will also be included in search results. Messages will still be downloaded and available through the All Mail folder. Uncheck any folders that you don't want to display in Thunderbird. To configure folder display, right-click on the account name and select Subscribe. By default, all Gmail folders are displayed, as described above. You can configure which Gmail folders you want to display in Thunderbird. Subscribing to or unsubscribing from folders (labels) (See Priority Inbox overview for more details about this Gmail feature.)


In this implementation, Gmail labels become Thunderbird folders. Gmail uses a special implementation of IMAP. Subscribing to folders and synchronizing messages Understanding Gmail labels and Thunderbird folders
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The Archive options… button is disabled for Gmail accounts, as it is not necessary to define the archive granularity with Gmail.
