Thunderbird saves passwords. One of them is wrong. How do I fix a bad password?
Not much else to say. The bad password is over 50 characters long and I have no idea where it came from. I know what the good password is. the password is for yahoo smtp. My thought was to just delete yahoo smtp and let yahoo re-install but don't know if that's the answer.
I am running with ubuntu 22.04
Thank you..............
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Is this password preceded by oauth://? That is the token stored in Saved Passwords after OAuth2 authentication has completed with Yahoo.
Thank you for the reply!
Where do I find the hiding place for the password and how to I fix it?
thank you for the reply! How do I find and fix the password?
I have opened thunderbird, got to settings, got to save passwords, edited the password, closed thunderbird and re-started. did it again, without closing and checked the saved passwords and the saved password remained the same one that was there before. That password was: ALIMbWRs5NgSFxaHG52WxEYDjwGK~000~FCvR5hixKQxZJQEU24rwSLk-
I went to another machine, wherein the thunderbird works. The one that does not has 3 saved passwords and the one that does has two, one of which is the same as the one I am trying to save. The other saved password, on the machine which will send is for gmail. I also have a gmail other the one that does work. I think that the one that does work is using gmail for sending all email out. (Only thing I could think of why).
The other thing which is strange is that I have a single password for google. That password is not the same password which is being used for google in thunderbird. Oh, the other thing is that the saved passwords in the machine that works will not allow the user to either look, nor edit, or change the saved passwords.
I think I am in trouble. I need somebody to either give me a step by step or tell me what I am doing wrong (I am really trying - but failing)
For Yahoo and gmail accounts, with OAuth2 authentication, there should be no account passwords in Saved Passwords, i.e. entries preceded with imap://, mailbox:// or smtp://. Remove those entries, restart TB, enter the account password in the OAuth window, which will store an oauth:// entry in Saved Passwords.