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Thunderbird 148+ on Windows 11 repeatedly prompts for the password when synchronizing an Exchange account (professional) configured with the native Exchange support (no add-on installed).

The account only offers “NTLM” or “Normal password” authentication methods. OAuth2 is not available in the account settings.

During synchronization, Thunderbird asks for the password separately for many folders. However, clicking “Retry” usually works immediately without changing the password, and manually re-entering the same password also works.

The issue then reappears for the next folder, causing continuous authentication prompts (I have many folders...).

Actions already tested:

• deleting saved passwords and tokens,
• deleting/renaming key4.db and logins.json,
• restarting Thunderbird,
• recreating the account.

The problem persists.

This looks like an authentication/session handling issue rather than an actual invalid password.

I've been trying to create and account on thunderbird with both my outlook and posteo emails but every time I click on 'create an account' it says:

Authentication error.

Unable to log in at server. Probably wrong configuration, username or password.

It showed me the same message last year when I tried to use thunderbird for the first time, and again now that I tried again thinking it was an issue that might have been fixed since then. I double check the configuration, username and password for both me emails but it doesn't want to got through. I tried it both on my computer with the desktop version and on my android phone, and neither works.

Is there anything I could do to fix this issue?

J'installe Thunderbird pour la première fois, je bloque sur la page " saisissez le mot de passe de votre compte de messagerie" j'ai noté ma mon adresse orange et mon mot de passe associé à cette adresse , mais il apparait un message d'erreur. Comment faire !!! Merci

Lorsque j'essaie d'ajouter un nouveau compte, la configuration est trouvé dans la base de données des FAI de Mozilla, je clic sur "continuer", dans la fenêtre Popup j'autorise Thunderbird a accéder à mes informations, ensuite j'ai le message "erreur d'authentification". Pourtant mon mot de passe est correcte.