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At sometime in the past I had Thunderbird set up so that it would not allow me to send bulk emails from an address list under To; or Cc: ONLY under Bcc:, somehow that setting is no longer working. By mistake I have just sent a bulk email to more than 40 addresses unde Cc:. Previously it was impossible to 'send' using To: or Cc: ONLY using Bcc:. Why has that setting been removed? How can I reset it please.

I receive requests to enter a password for Mozilla every few minutes. Following the advice on support.mozilla.com, I navigated to Tools, Account Settings, and in the left pane, clicked "Outgoing Server" but nowhere could I find the command, "Security and Authentication" or a place to deselect "Use name and password". Could someone please tell me how to stop frequent request to send a password? I have eight email accounts in Thunderbird and I am running Thunderbird 78.8.1 (32 bit) on Windows 10.

Thanks

spruce18b

Previously using Thunderbird with Enigmail, upgrade to the new version without paying attention to the changes to the OpenPGP integration.

Now i read https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/openpgp-thunderbird-howto-and-faq How is my personal key protected? At the time you import your personal key into Thunderbird, we unlock it, and protect it with a different password, that is automatically (randomly) created. The same automatic password will be used for all OpenPGP secret keys managed by Thunderbird. You should use the Thunderbird feature to set a Master Password. Without a master password, your OpenPGP keys in your profile directory are unprotected.

But I do not agree and I want to regain possession of my keys, using my own password. I want to export my secret key and use it as before with my password.

Could you please help me?

Thanks in advanced,

Regards

I no longer have access to Tbird. I have no saved passwords and cannot change my master password. I keep getting 'enter your password for awneitsch on imap.shaw.ca'

I have two email accounts with Rogers where I use Thunderbird on my PC as an email client. Rogers recently forced changes to my account to require an an OAuth2 authentication method. Rogers itself was unwilling to provide me with any direction as to how to do that and after much trial and error I have been able to configure Thunderbird to receive emails, but I can send on only one of the email accounts. On account #1 - The inbound email settings are set to a server setting of pop.mail.yahoo.com, Connection Security ssl/tls and authentication Oauth2; the outbound server is smtp.broadband.rogers.com with the user name being the account email; it works fine. On account #2, the inbound settings are the same except for the account email. It works fine. On account #2 the outbound server settings are also smtp.broadband.rogers.com. However if i add the email for the second account to the user name on the outbound settings it then blocks the first. Clearly I am doing something wrong when configuring the outbound server settings but I cannot figure out what to do.

I changed my email password today due to a security issue. After changing it my incoming mail server is fine but my outgoing server won't accept the new password. I tried changing the saved password in the manager and it still won't work. I also tried changing back to my old password and it still won't work. Any Suggestions?

I have been dealing with this issue for a long time. I tell Thunderbird to delete ll messages after 7 days, except for starred messages and NEVER does. I really think it has to do with Google servers to KEEP all messages for marketing reason, which really frigging pisses me off. I have set this time and time again and does not do what it is told. So I ask myself why are we even using this product when it doesn't work. I think the only way to get this to delete messages if I log in directly and delete them from there. Which makes Thunderbird look bad because it doesn't do what it is instructed to do. If you can not delete messages or retain your settings then either tell people or remove your software off the market. NOT IMPRESSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is bad enough there are tons of garbage software on the market already.

Hello, I have set up Thunderbird and inserted a PGP key. Now I want to include for the same email account a s / Mime key for me, which has already been created. The provider where I had created it was actalis.it with kind regards, Christian

Turnoutpac.org is a vicious fake progressive organization (in my opinion) that hounds me multiple times a day with spam that the spam filter fails to screen out. There are a few others that get past my highest filter setting, but they're the worst.

I use an old mail system, earthlink.net.

Help! Thanks, Linda

my email account has been compromised. This is a business account that I have used for over 9 years. I want to change the password so that they won't be able to log into this account. I don't see where to change the password. I see where the password is saved, but not where to actually change the password for the account.

Hello, I have set up a master password on my Thunderbird client and it asks for it very time I open up Thunderbird, like it should. Unfortunately, I tried bypassing the password prompt and it is very easy : Thunderbird loads a window asking for the password, but by simply closing it, Thunderbird still boots up. Once it's open, you can see the accounts. It asks for the password again, but if you close it once more, you can access the inbox of an account. It asks for the password, you just close it and you can access the individual emails. It creates a huge security breach and defeats the whole purpose of having a password on my local client, being that even if somebody gets their hands on my computer and inside my session, they still can't access my email. Worse, it cannot work as a deterrent : if you open Thunderbird, see the password window and decide not to try to open Thunderbird, by closing the window, you will still access the inbox like shown above.

I use Thunderbird 78.9.0, which, I believe, is the most recent version.

Thank you for any help, Paul

I have Att.net mail and when I quit receiving emails, got a secure authentication key from ATT.net. I now receive emails but can't send because it's looking for a password. I don't have a password for outbound nor can I change whatever password I have. What can I do to send emails?

I searched Google for Thunderbird and the first Ad result is thunderblrd.com with an "L" instead of an "I" I'm assuming it's a scam that has you download a malicious clone of Thunderbird. I'm sure this has been brought to your attention already. Thank you.

Whenever I send mail I have to enter my password again. This is annoying enough. But since the upgrade to V78.9.0, I now have to enter it before Thunderbird even opens at all. Three times is too much. How do I st up to only enter once, please? I use Thunderbird as a client for an Outlook account.

Hi, I installed Thunderbird onto new laptop last week. All working AOK until I added on a dictionary, so that spell check would work. After that, I can receive, but not send emails. I get this message;

  Sending of the message failed.
  Peer's Certificate issuer is not recognised.
  The configuration related to smtp.gmail.com must be corrected.

I checked my account server settings - same as former laptop. Ports etc the same. Question 1 - is installing the dictionary the cause of not being able to send? Question 2 - whatever the cause, what can I do to remedy this?

Please answer simply as I am not a super tech. My understanding of the certificate is its like a handshake between my laptop and other entities. Many thanks, Julie Grace

I am researching various ways of improving the security of my email. And I really like the ideas of pep:

https://pep.software/thunderbird/

What is the official word from Thunderbird on this? It seems to me that pep is able to remove some of the complexities of encryption much in the same way as Signal Messenger.

I can not find any information here when I search for it, so I got a bit curious.

Also, pep is available for almost any platform.