Why does Thunderbird not promt me for a new password instead of deleting all my cached messages?
I change my email password regularly. After doing so, Thunderbird is no longer able to connect. Instead, it just purges everything cached in my Inbox and all other folders.
I have followed the directions to removed the "Saved Password". Thunderbird then prompts me for a new password. Then it re-downloads all my email again.
This takes a long time and a lot of band-width. I need access to all of this historic email in my line of work. I am sure I could spend time and come up with a work-around or use a different product (e.g. Outlook), but I would prefer to continue using Thunderbird.
Perhaps a product improvement would be to prompt the user for a new password when connection failed, or at least not purge all the cached email during password update.
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If you are using IMAP: You are remotely viewing folders and emails kept on the server.
Subscribed folders download headers. When you select email it is downloaded to a temp cache. These emails are not stored in Thunderbird.
Synchronised subscribed folders download a copy to Thunderbird Profile folders. These emails will still available in Thunderbird, even if you are working in 'offline' mode. These folders continuously synchronise with server if in online mode- so both copies keep in synch with server. The folders are esentially one and the same.
When you connect with server- as you would at restart or after new password, then everything will either download to fresh cache or synchronise.
Do you synchronise subscribed folders or not?