Edited by gunnydeepin at 2017-5-18 12:17

strange I had no issues setting up my gmail or exchange accounts. once I put in my gmail address it automatically populated the setup dialogue with all the right parameters. You can download it here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ Extract the tarball into your home folder and execute the thunderbird script (simply open the file "thunderbird" and run it) create a link to that file or simply dock it and it will open from then on. Nice thing about getting it directly from mozilla is that it will continuously be updated on it's own. Make sure you remove the old version first though!

That did the trick. Thank you.

It was an issue of google upgrade. People should still update thunderbird version. Only 52 seems to work when adding new google accounts.