Why is Thunderbird not secure enough for Google Mail to allow it to access my email account.
The reason given was because I had not allowed access to my google account for accounts that were considered not secure. When I set to allow less secure sites my Thunderbird account worked. Do not like having Google be set to allow less secure sites. Please see about being secure enough that Google will accept Thunderbird when I select only allow secure sites.
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The 'allow less secure app' setting is Google speak for telling you to use their webmail service. Using traditional user ID/password to access your mail with a 3rd-party email client like Thunderbird is not less secure when you connect to the server via TLS and you do have a strong password.
Thunderbird supports Oauth2 authentication for Google IMAP and SMTP since quite a while. This is considered 'secure' by Google, and doesn't require you to 'allow less secure apps'.
So you'd need to set up your Gmail account as IMAP.
My incoming is pop but outgoing is SMTP and it would not accept sending either. Also I have used the settings I have for years! Then yesterday the error came up. The only thing that fixed it was allowing access for less secure apps
christ1. Can you tell me how to set up as IMAP?
Follow these instructions. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Convert_a_POP_account_to_a_IMAP_account
For backing up the profile follow these instructions, instead of using Mozbackup. https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profiles-where-thunderbird-stores-user-data#w_backing-up-a-profile