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 >  WvV> Maybe the config change and a restart of TB is enough to
 >  WvV> get things going again?

 > I think it's too late to try just that. The weekend is upon us  
 > - the son-in-law is surely already present. Unless he knows to  
 > track down the workaround like I did, and try it first, he  
 > will just opt for resetting a new password.  Then, the  
 > original problem will still lurk in the shadows.


Update.  That is exactly what happened.  They opted for new gmail password.

From the header in a recent email:

Message-ID: <6abb2f70-ebdb-19c4-c762-ae5a1f112f61@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 12:33:33 -0500
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101
    Thunderbird/78.5.1

According to Mozilla, this was a Dec 2 release.

But the last time I worked on that pc, was in Oct.

So.. they probably opted for one more update in the 78.5.x series.
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