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Re: [LUG] OT: working abroad
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- Subject: Re: [LUG] OT: working abroad
- From: Martijn Grooten <martijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 14:46:11 +0000
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 01:11:17PM +0100, Eion MacDonald wrote:
> This is often a security check by Gmail. Log in to their webmail and
> thereafter after logging out from same IP address the Thunderbird works.
> You should also routinely get a message to your gmail account and to
> your 'secondary email with Gmail' that a log on was done from a new
> computer/IP.
> This is very normal GMail action.
It is indeed.
The reason is that downloading emails via IMAP (the protocol that
Thunderbird uses to connect to Gmail's servers) would scale well for a
rogue actor, whereas accessing emails via the browser doesn't.
Martijn.
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