Is it possible to use a shared Gmail inbox with Thunderbird?
I tried to access a shared Gmail account via Thunderbird, let's say [email protected]. I don't have a password for this account, but when I log in in the browser, Gmail knows it is a shared account and says "log in using another account" and then I can use [email protected] to log in.
I tried this in Thunderbird by adding [email protected] and then using [email protected] as the OAuth2 option. I found some tutorials at university websites that use this, but all with Exchange and not Gmail. At first this didn't work; I got an "incoming server already exists" error. By using imap.googlemail.com I circumvented that and the account was added, but it showed the [email protected] inbox, not the [email protected] one.
Is there a way to make this work or is it simply not possible?
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Maybe I'm not understanding, but my grasp of Gmail's shared account is that, once you accept the invitation, Gmail directs all shared mail to your personal account. When you reply, it sends from the shared account. That would mean that you do not setup a shared account on Thunderbird, but respond to shared messages from your personal account. This URL explains it that way: https://www.keeping.com/content/gmail-shared-mailbox/
Looked it up and Google uses shared account for Google Groups like accounts. What I mean is called a 'delegate' in Google terminology: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/138350?hl=en&sjid=7417693787115493203-EU#zippy=%2Cadd-a-delegate
Martÿn were you able to sort this out?
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1383283 cites the same error.