As I posted in Off Topic, my Google account had some hinky activity earlier this month culminating in a few crappy song 'purchases' (emails were timestamped the 28th but I never got them until yesterday).
One of the steps I took was to enable the 2-factor authentication for now. Although it's already driving me nuts. For some reason, Thunderbird on my desktop isn't allowed to sign in with my regular Gmail password, it needs an 'app specific password'. I'm supposed to only need to generate it ONCE for each app/device. Right? Not really. TB needs that app-specific password every time I want to get (and SEND) email, which means I have to sign into Google, revoke authorization and regenerate a code to then plug into TB as my password.
Anyone have experience with this and how to get it to actually remember the program? I'm thinking that it has to do with dynamic IP assignment (Google gets confused)...
One of the steps I took was to enable the 2-factor authentication for now. Although it's already driving me nuts. For some reason, Thunderbird on my desktop isn't allowed to sign in with my regular Gmail password, it needs an 'app specific password'. I'm supposed to only need to generate it ONCE for each app/device. Right? Not really. TB needs that app-specific password every time I want to get (and SEND) email, which means I have to sign into Google, revoke authorization and regenerate a code to then plug into TB as my password.
Anyone have experience with this and how to get it to actually remember the program? I'm thinking that it has to do with dynamic IP assignment (Google gets confused)...