Thunderbird, OAuth2, and Gmail

[ysc]

Posting this here because I am not sure if it is 100% a Manjaro problem per se.

Thunderbird available in the stable branch does not seem to like Google's security token, which prevents Gmail IMAP from working all together. Thunderbird does open a window to go through Google's security steps, including 2-step verification via SMS, but the app gets never registered and Thunderbird does not get IMAP access.

Reproduction steps (stable):

1. Install Thunderbird

sudo pacman -Syu thunderbird

2. Input your Gmail info (OAuth2).

Thunderbird installed via Flatpak does work just fine, so it is clearly an app-version issue. Any suggestions or info you might have regarding this issue?

Thanks.

[bill_t]

This issue was reported and is fixed in version 68.2.1 of Thunderbird. See the bug report here:

1592407 - Google services not working: OAuth2 failure when using Google...

Until version 68.2.1 becomes available in the repositories you can try the workaround suggested in the bug report (comment #22 in the report) and see if that works.

Edit > Preferences > Advanced > General (tab) > Config Editor > search for general.useragent.compatMode.firefox and set it to true

[ysc]

Should have checked the bug tracker first, my bad. Thanks for the reply, that explains why it works via Flatpak (which is update to 68.2.1).