"invalid directory" prevents second email account

My Problem:Since dumping the preferences for Mail and reinstalling my main Mail account I have been unable to enter an extra mail account. Every time I try to save the changes I get a message box: INVALID DIRECTORY THE ACCOUNT PATH BLAH BLAH IS ALREADY BEING USED BY THE ACCOUNT(my usual email address) I have checked and rechecked that my main (and working fine) account is set up correctly. Perhaps one way of solving this would be to update my copy of Mail. It is 1.3.11 (v622/624) dated 2003. I am running X3.9 I have not been able to find how to download a more up to date version of Mail. Any clues? Would that in fact be likely to fix this silly little problem? My thanks to those of you there who put your time into helping dodos like me.

I also tried deleting TB altogether and reinstalled trying the problem gmail account and it still didn't work.
While checking on the 2-factor authentication, which I don't use, i noticed something. The working gmail account allowed 'access for less secure apps' and my problem account didn't. I enabled that and was able to add it to TB. All works now!
Not sure if the less secure apps is a good thing, but its working.
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