Thunderbird with GMail

Google supplies step-by-step instructions on setting up Thunderbird with Google. Unfortunately they don't keep it updated. So I'll update it here.

• 1) "Enable IMAP in your Gmail account." *Not a problem.
• 2) "Open Thunderbird, and select Tools > Account Settings." *That works.
• 3) " Click Add Account." *Good.
• 4) "Select the Email account radio button and click Next. The Identity screen appears." *Well there's a radio button for "gmail" but we'll go with google's instructions since they probably have the details.
• 5) "Enter your full name in the Your Name field. Enter your full Gmail email address (username@gmail.com) in the Email Address field, and click Next." *Ok, I'll enter my full gmail email address in both and hope. (Not just my name as described in this step.)
• 6)"Select IMAP as the type of incoming server you are using. Enter imap.gmail.com in the Incoming Server field." *It is at this step the instructions differ. Thunderbird at this step is asking for the "Incoming User Name:" which google supplies in step 8 as the full email address. *Then it asks for an account name. There is nothing in googles documentation for this so I again use my email address. *When next is impressed it asks for verification and you'll notice the outgoing user name is different than what google says it should be in step 8 of their documentation. There's no fixing that at this point so you have to click finish. *Now double click on "Outgoing Server (SMTP) and then edit the google settings and change the "User Name:" to your full email address as Google describes.
• 7) "Set the Outgoing Server to smtp.gmail.com, and click Next." *It should already be correct but verify by following the last part of the remedies to step 6.
• 8) "Enter your Gmail username (including @gmail.com) in the Incoming User Name and Outgoing User Name fields, and click Next." * We already did this.
• 9) "Enter a name for your email account in the Account Name field, and click Next.". * We already did this too.
• 10) "Verify your account information in the dialog box, and click Finish." * Yeah, already done.
• 11) "Select Server Settings from the folder list below your new account." * Just double click on it.
• 12) " Update the Port value to 993." * ok.
• 13) "In the Security Settings section, select SSL from the Use secure connection options." * Ok. Would be nice if they said something about "Use Secure authentication" check off box but their documentation is lacking. Their picture of this shows it unclicked and it's also the default so I'll hope...
• 14) " Select Check for messages at startup and Automatically download new messages" *...
• 15) "Click Outgoing Server (SMTP) in the folder list " * ok,
• 16) "Select the smtp.gmail.com (Default) entry from the list and click Edit. The SMTP Server page appears." * yep.
• 17) "Enter smtp.gmail.com as the Server Name and set the Port to 587." *Already done.
• 18) "Select User name and password and enter your Gmail username (including @gmail.com) in the User Name field." * Done.
• 19) "Select TLS from the Use secure connection radio buttons and click OK.' * Already done.
• 20) "Click OK to save your changes and exit the Account Settings dialog. " *ok.