WhaT HAPPENS IF I HAVE TO RESET MY THUNDERBIRD MASTER PASSWORD? WHAT DO I ACTUALLY PERMANENTLY LOSE? DO I LOSE THE ABILITY TO ACCESS ANY OF MY EMAIL OR DATA?
It looks from the cryptic notes on the Thunderbird site that all kinds of bad shit happens if I reset my master password? Do I really lose my email accounts and all my stored folders in Thunderbird? Or is all that happens that I just have to set new passwords for my gmail accounts? Or does something else happen?
I really do not want to lose access to data permanently so I cannot risk resetting the master password until I know what kind of bad result will happen.
PLEASE HELP!
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The master password is designed to stop people seeing your Thunderbird saved passwords. If you delete the master password it will remove the stored passwords, so will need to reenter the stored passwords for each mail account if you want Thunderbird to use them. This is part of the safety, after all, if you can delete the master password then anyone can also do the same and see the stored passwords, hence why they get deleted as well.
If Thunderbird has no stored/saved passwords, when you start up Thunderbird or GetMail, it will prompt you for the password to access that email account on the server. Enter the correct password, make sure you select the checkbox for password mamanger to remember the password and click on ok.
See info:
Removing the Master Password does not lose mail accounts, emails etc, it merely removes the master password and the saved individual passwords for each mail account.
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