I’m a student at Temple University in Philadelphia, and until now I haven’t been able to read my email in my preferred client, Mozilla Thunderbird. That is until my friend Peter Mowen (@TheMathochist) spent some time to figure it out. Since the university still doesn’t provide instructions, here they are:

From the Thunderbird interface, navigate to File > New > Existing Mail Account. Enter your email address and your password, then click Continue. Thunderbird will not configure this correctly (it thinks it’s an Outlook account), but that’s OK. Click Manual Config at the bottom of this screen. Change the respective IMAP and SMTP server hostnames to imap.gmail.com and smtp.gmail.com. After you’ve done that, click Done (but we’re not actually done).

Your newly added account will show up in the left side pane of Thunderbird with your other accounts, but it won’t be able to fetch mail yet. Find the Temple email account listed there, right click it, and click Settings. In the new window that opens, locate the Temple email account in question, and in that section click Server Settings. Under the heading labeled Security Settings, change the Authentication method to OAuth2.

Now you’re actually done, and you should be able to send and receive your Temple University email from Thunderbird!