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Hello hi ya' doin',

I'm running Thunderbird 115.7.0 IMAP on a laptop with Win10Home. I also have an iPhone and iPad.

Normally when I open Thunderbird on the laptop it asks for my password, even before I check/send mail. A few days ago it stopped asking for the password, and will check for mail without asking for the password. Sending mail still asks for the password. Mail sends/receives on all devices and on webmail.

How do I get Thunderbird to prompt me for my password when I open the program, or at least before I check for mail?

Scott

Mac OS Sonoma, MacbookPro 2018. Cannot save passwords, cannot set master password. Works fine on 3 other machines, cannot work on this one, I need this to work. I have tried everything including re-installation. I have deleted various old files per suggestions, nothing works. If I enter my email password with checking the checkbox to save it, everything works fine. If I check the "save in password manager" it fails and the email fails. a master password is not set and nothing I have tried will let me set one. It's making me crazy.

My Gmail account opens fine in Chrome. Thunderbird can't get to it; it says my password is incorrect. I have tried it enough times to know I've not typed them all incorrectly.

I'm baffled, all help gratefully received.

Lately receiving more emails where the subject line is completely blank? How do I filter these to junk mail? They're from random senders. Tried to set up a new filter but it did not work. Thanks

I have forgotten my cogeco, email PW accessed through the Thunderbird account. Email address is bcorbett8@cogeco.ca

As I cannot remember it, Thunderbird does not provide option for reset without original password. I have been unable to read messages for some time and need to do so. Please advise at earliest convenience.

Cathi Corbett bcorbett8@cogeco.ca

My Thunderbird works 100% fine with my googlemail account. My problem is with google i cannot access my account and am locked out even though i get my emails in thunderbird and on my iphone i am 92 years old and was wondering if there is any way i can find my password through thunderbird?

how do i setup 2FA for my thunderbird email account with the Microsoft authenticator app and how do i know my encryption setup is done correctly. I did this for my account but not sure if it was done correctly just want to confirm. Also recovery and backup codes can I have those too?

Hello, my client uses thunderbird on her hotmail account (strebel-annemarie@hotmail.com) but the inquiries from her business website end up in her spam. Is there a way to change settings?

Kindly Sara Tordini

I have just bought a new computer and have downloaded Thunderbird for my emails. I have 3 email accounts. I have lost my passwords for these accounts. When I look on my old computer in Thunderbird I go to password manager and there are no saved passwords for me to get. It's like I have to set up thunderbird all over again. I transferred from the old thunderbird to the new one and nothing happened. I AM A NOVICE AT THIS. No accounts etc etc no passwords. I am desperate. Yes I used an external drive to put the thunderbird stuff on the new computer,

PLEASE HELP

I have a gmail account which works fine using Thunderbird on a Windows 10 computer. I am trying to create the same account on another Windows 10 computer using Thunderbird but it fails when trying to connect to the account.

I have checked the identifier, the password and the authentification settings wih OAuth, but it still fails. Any idea why and what is going wrong ?

I bought a s/mime cert from globalsign and digicert both. Neither cert is recognized by Thunderbird when I try to send a signed email. The certs are correctly installed.

This just started happening when my old cert expired. What could be going wrong?

Why do I need to type in my password for e-mail account every time Thunderbird starts up? The password (on mail-server) has been changed after the first configuration of Thunderbird. How can I fix this problem? ajoh@telia.com

Many years ago with Virgin Media and Thunderbird I set up original e-mail of alexam@blueyomder.co.uk, then added alexamimages@yahoo.com for photography then badgerwoodcrafters@yahoo.com for my woodwork hobby, but now I am 83 I only wish to use my e-mail of malcolm.alexander101@gmail.com. I thought I had redirected the other e-mails to my gmail account, but it does not seem to work correctly or only intermitantly and I need some help please, as I am unable t understand what is needed.

Can someone please let me know how I re-direct all previous e-mails to my new gmail account on my new windows 11 laptop and help an old non geek like me to understand. many thanks. Please reply to malcolm.alexander101@gmail.com.

Microsoft has changed securities for mails using now Oauth2 . Extern app like thunderbird on mac must used a password based on Oauth2 on a mac and mail works correctly.

But If you want to add the same values on another mac, the system replies to log on a server like school server,enterprise server. If you don't have external server and you have only a personal mail you cannot use hotmail ,outlook on other mac. What can we do to avoid this and to have mails on several mac PC's.

Have an address list whose users all have accepted pgp keys loaded in OpenPGP Manager that appear to meet all requirements, including email addresses in the key user IDs that match target addresses.

When messages are sent to the individual users, Thunderbird encrypts successfully using these keys without issue. However, when a message is prepared to go to a list, OpenPGP Key Assistant claims "No key available." This occurs even if the list is reduced to a single, viable email address with corresponding pgp public key.

What have I misconfigured or misunderstood? Please see screen capture.

Thanks