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i was trying to change my password to correspond with my other server so i thought changing my password was just to do that but i removed even the primary one that was made 15 years ago and do not have it written down . so now i cannot open up my thunderbird emails or send anything because i do not know the primary password and you guys do not show anywhere i can change that without knowing my primary. which is a joke.

My computer recently crashed, and I've only been able to partly restore it. One of the casualties seems to be access to Thunderbird (although I've just accessed this help page with the password that doesn't work with the App).

I had a Thunderbird account with my @outlook.com email a few years ago. I'm now trying to rejoin Thunderbird with the same email name but it won't accept the current Microsoft account password (almost certainly now different from previously). How can I find the old password that will enable me to rejoin Thunderbird. (There is no 'cannot remember your password?' option as far as I