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Gmail will not download mail. Get this error: Failed to connect to server imap.gmail.com

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About 5 days ago I began getting this error message: Failed to connect to server imap.gmail.com and I cannot get or send messages from Gmail.

About 5 days ago I began getting this error message: Failed to connect to server imap.gmail.com and I cannot get or send messages from Gmail.

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usually cause by turning off the use less secure apps setting on the gmail web site during one of their security checkups. Did you do that?

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I have changed no settings on my Gmail. In fact I have two-step verification so if I understand correctly that doesn't apply here. I have Thunderbird set up on two separate computers, my office computer and one of my retail computers out front. It's the retail computer out front that is having the problem. I have done nothing to either of them but the office computer still receives and sends perfectly.

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This, by the way, is a recurring issue on the front computer. It crops up and goes away on it's own but is a pain while it happens.

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Still struggling with this. Thunderbird will not download gmail at all.