Monday, March 1, 2010

Gmail's prompting me for my password in Thunderbird

Even though my company switched to using Google for everything (mail, docs, etc) I just wasn't willing to give up the things that I feel Thunderbird gives me for mail sorting and scheduling.  We can have a screaming argument about this all day (and I have), but sometimes you just like the way you're doing things, and don't want to give up your tool.

Anyways, I've been struggling for a while with Thunderbird's calendar integration with Google Calendar-- every once in a while, it will prompt me over and over again for my password, and even though I am SURE I am typing it right, and have checked the "please will you please PLEASE remember this in the future" box, it keeps popping up the password prompt.

And man, if I thought I had some reasons to like Seth Godin before, hoooo boy is he my personal hero now.  He has a post here that says that Google might just be getting stuck on a captcha issue.  And sure enough, that fixed my problem on the first try.

So there is a hidden link that takes you to a little captcha prompt, which apparently resets the flag that says you might be someone suspicious.

Good stuff.

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