Why doesn't Thunderbird require password now?
I am using Thunderbird 45.5.1. Until very recently (before upadate?) I had to enter pw to download email and send email, both once per session. Now neither is required. I read some posts with a similar problem that suggested my provider (Comcast) may no loger require a pw. I tried to check that and Comcast still does require pw. Suggestions for fix? Thanks.
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Does it show just that one password?
So long as you know your current password(s), I'd suggest you delete all the stored passwords. This will oblige Thunderbird to ask you for each password as and when it is required.
When you're prompted for a password, the dialogue has a check box that tells Thunderbird to "remember" that password.
Now, I have many accounts and wouldn't want to enter each one's password every time I started Thunderbird, so I allow Thunderbird to store my passwords, and I set it to use a Master Password. So at startup I am prompted for the Master Password, and then the passwords for individual accounts are submitted automatically.
There is a wrinkle in Thunderbird which means that it may ask me again for the Master Password every time an account tries to connect to its server. My preferred solution to this is to use an add-on, StartupMaster which suppresses these multiple prompts.
If you have just one account then you might prefer just to enter its password as needed. Think about if you want it to store this password or not, and if not, take care not to tick the "remember" checkbox when entering an account's password.
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You probably told Thunderbird to remember your password.
If I did that, it was done by accident because I don’t know how to do that. I’ve used Thunderbird for many years with very few problems. One of those problems, years back, was something like this one: When I first set up Thunderbird, I only had to enter the pw once, the first time I either received or sent email. More recently, at least a couple of years ago, after an upgrade, I had to enter my pw the first time I downloaded email and also the first time I sent an email. Did I do something specific then to change how TB had been working? Not that I know of. What I’m looking for now is a way to get back to the situation where I have to enter a pw, at least for the first activity. Can you, or anyone, outline the steps I need to take?
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/protect-your-thunderbird-passwords-master-password
Follow the steps to reset the master password. That will reset any stored passwords
I’ve looked at the linked page but haven’t done anything yet. The word “reset” is making me a little nervous because, as you can see in the attachments, I don’t have a master password to begin with. Something that is probably related to my issue here is that if I click the Saved Passwords button I can see the password that I have been using for at least many month but it indicated that it was created, first used and last used on December 3 and it was only used once. As I mentioned, I created and used the password well before December 3. So, even though I don’t see a master password to reset, should I create one? Thanks.
Solusi Terpilih
Does it show just that one password?
So long as you know your current password(s), I'd suggest you delete all the stored passwords. This will oblige Thunderbird to ask you for each password as and when it is required.
When you're prompted for a password, the dialogue has a check box that tells Thunderbird to "remember" that password.
Now, I have many accounts and wouldn't want to enter each one's password every time I started Thunderbird, so I allow Thunderbird to store my passwords, and I set it to use a Master Password. So at startup I am prompted for the Master Password, and then the passwords for individual accounts are submitted automatically.
There is a wrinkle in Thunderbird which means that it may ask me again for the Master Password every time an account tries to connect to its server. My preferred solution to this is to use an add-on, StartupMaster which suppresses these multiple prompts.
If you have just one account then you might prefer just to enter its password as needed. Think about if you want it to store this password or not, and if not, take care not to tick the "remember" checkbox when entering an account's password.
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Deleted the stored password. Thunderbird now works the way I want it to: ask me for pw when I first look for email; ask me for pw when I first send an email. Thank you.