I have finally bitten the bullet and installed Win 11 with a new computer, after having decided a long time ago that I wouldn't like Win 11. How wrong can you be!!.
I use Thunderbird for email and have done so for many years, My email client is Gmail.
Since the change over to Win 11, when I open Thunderbird I get an error message, that I can simply get rid of by clicking OK, so not a problem it seems, but I'd rather not keep getting the message.
However I try the message won't let me copy/paste it so it is typed out here:
"The STAT command did not succeed. Error getting message number and sizes. Mail server Pop.gmail.com responded: [SYS/PERM] Your account is not enabled for POP access. Please visit your gmail settings page and enable your account for POP access"
I have a suspicion this may have arisen during the initial Win setup from new? But how to get out of it!!
In my Thunderbird the left pane has two (my email accounts) addresses showing, both the same. One (IMAP) has all my email traffic in it, the other (POP3) is completely empty with only the bare minimum of options Inbox, sent etc. Right click to settings in either confirms the Imap, pop3 differences, but doesn't seem to have any way of editing them, and even if there was, what should I do without losing huge numbers of mails.
My previous Win worked perfectly for years, I can't see what the settings differences might be.
Could this be something that should be sorted at the Plus end of things?
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