Thunderbird oauth2 Problems [Solved]

[Ironfighter]

Thanks for the many responses - I have tried all the suggestions without success.
To make matters worse I set up a gmail account I have in about 10 minutes most of which time was spent getting a security code to allow Thunderbird to access my account. It worked as a pop account but I had the choice of imap.
It has got me stumped this one. In the meantime I have just set up a Firefox launcher to get me into my outlook account - not the best.
I think I will go for a lie down. :(

[aika]

... received a warning that i needed to switch to oauth2 come September. I am using seamonkey which should behave much like thunderbird ...

In Seamonkey I use a different Outlook email address via IMAP (Port993),
which I couldn't switch to OAuth2 because the original server name was imap-mail.outlook.com there is. But here works still “Normal password” via “SSL/TLS”.

For me, OAuth2 only works via POP in my new Outlook email address with server name outlook.office365.com.

[baldyeti]

This is not going to help the OP unfortunately but for seamonkey users, connecting to MS mail servers using OAuth2 does not work for the current 2.53.18 release, but should in the upcoming 2.53.19. I successfully tested 2.53.20_beta1_pre on MX21. Details here.

[Ironfighter]

I have found a solution which works for me but leaves some questions unanswered for conventional installation methods (synaptic & MX Package Installer).
Here is my process:-

• Uninstalled Thunderbird using Synaptic including configuration files.
  Made sure I had no profiles left on my hard drive from previous installations.
  Downloaded the latest version of Thunderbird from their website -https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/
  Extracted the tar.bz2 to an opt folder I have created in my /home/username/ folder.
  Executed the file and when through the set up process for my Outlook email service.
  As with previous attempts it found my settings BUT it said they were wrong and asked me if I wanted to create an account anyway?!
  I said yes and it proceeded to download every message I have received or sent since I opened the account some years ago (lets just say quite a few) which took a bit of time.
  Either during or just before the last dot point I got a pop up message from MS on my screen asking me to login to my Outlook account which I did
  I then closed Thunderbird.
  I created a desktop launcher pointing to my /home/username/opt/thunderbird/thunderbird.exe file.
  I dragged and dropped it onto my panel.
  It opened without any hassle so I created a new account for my Gmail account.
  It found my settings and I got a pop up message from Google asking me to login which I did.
  Thunderbird then downloaded all my gmail messages.

I hope this helps someone else because it has the potential to drive people like me to distraction.

[aika]

... the latest version of Thunderbird from their website -https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/ ...

Your Thunderbird version was probably too old, I read MX-19 and Buster too late.

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And I now need a new Seamonkey version, the tested version 2.53.20_beta1 for Linux I found here => https://archive.seamonkey-project.org/n ... -comm-253/

[Ironfighter]

Your Thunderbird version was probably too old, I read MX-19 and Buster too late.

Even though I downloaded and installed it via Synaptic?

[aika]

MX-19 was provided with updates until June 2024. Now you have an up-to-date email program, if you want to keep MX-19 for a while, you should get an up-to-date browser. Current Google-Chrome or current Firefox is available via Debian-PPA ( https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/in ... tributions ). Starting in July, Debian-Buster will not provide further security updates.

[MXRobo]

Your Thunderbird version was probably too old, I read MX-19 and Buster too late.

Even though I downloaded and installed it via Synaptic?

I was under the impression that one of the reasons for installing/upgrading to a new distro is to have the latest applications available per the distro base/type, e.g. fixed, stable, etc., so yes you'd most definitely have older packages, even on Synaptic.

I'm not sure that Synaptic is representative of what is available from MXPI, but I think it probably is for the Enabled Repo tab – again not sure, anyway here are a few links showing Thunderbird versions in MX-19 through MX-21 – oddly Thunderbird is not listed in either mxrepo.com or repology.org for MX-23.

https://mxrepo.com/
https://mxrepo.com/MX19packages.html
https://mxrepo.com/MX21packages.html
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https://repology.org/project/thunderbird/versions
https://repology.org/repositories/statistics Note: % Outdated
https://repology.org/projects/t/?inrepo=mx_19
https://repology.org/projects/t/?inrepo=mx_21
https://repology.org/projects/t/?inrepo=mx_23 N/A

https://repology.org/repository/mx_21 example

I'm sure you know that MX-19 reached end of life a month or so ago.

Cheers!

[Ironfighter]

@aika & @MXRobo - thanks for your comments. I have been putting of upgrading to MX23 but you have given me another reason to stop procrastinating