Follow up from my two cent input yesterday. Best to disregard the app password idea I tabled yesterday. I did some email administration yesterday and it looks like the industry is doing away with app passwords for reasons that are probably obvious to everyone on this email forum. I discovered yesterday that Google is discontinuing app passwords in gmail on May 30, 2022. I suspect Microsoft already has.  

On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 7:11 PM William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
OK.  Got the latest Thunderbird working on my old settings and data.  To
select the "default" profile, you have to

(1) thunderbird --ProfileManager

or

(2) Help -> More Troubleshooting Information -> Application Basics ->
Profiles -> "about:profiles"

Online docs says to click "Open Directory".  But, it pops up Audacious
music player.  Crazy.


On 4/23/22 13:34, William Park via talk wrote:
> I'm using Thunderbird 68.12esr.  I just downloaded Thunderbird-91.8.1
> (latest), and found that it doesn't import settings from the old one.
> WTF!  It'll take a week to regenerate all the filter rules and account
> settings.  OS needs upgrading too. :-(
> Thanks Seneca.
>
> On 4/23/22 11:21 AM, Seneca Cunningham via talk wrote:
>> UofT made some changes recently with authentication, disabling what
>> they’re calling “legacy authentication”.  These days, it’s OAUTH2 or
>> you’re stuck with webmail.  First, you need to ensure that you’re
>> using Thunderbird 77.0b1 at the minimum.  Then, you can follow the
>> instructions in the email they sent about this in March:
>> https://its.utoronto.ca/improving-information-security-by-disabling-legacy-authentication/
>>
>>
>>> On Apr 17, 2022, at 21:06, William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> To those with @alumni.utoronto.ca email account,
>>>
>>> I have an old UofT account, and I'm trying to set it up in Thunderbird.
>>>
>>> (1) Getting Email:
>>>
>>> I can download via IMAP.  But can't via POP3.  Is it same experience
>>> for other people?
>>>
>>> (2) Sending Email:
>>>
>>> I can't send email via their SMTP server.  Thunderbird asks for
>>> password which errors out.
>>>
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