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Hi, I can sign in and all mail accouns work fine. However, i USED to be able to go to passwords then chose show passwords and (after typing my global passsword for TB) I would see my real passwords (not the long string of letters) for each account.

Now I cannot see these anymore. How come and can i see my real passwords for my accounts?

thanks

Have 2 accounts in a TB install: gmail and outlook. Use outlook as my primary sending account. All mail received on outlook account is FORWARDED to gmail account. Have been asked several times this morning to either login to Microsoft account or enter a new password. Entered my "regular" Microsoft/Outlook password when asked and told TB to save it. Still getting authentication problems. Password I am using WILL log me into the Outlook website. Any clues?

Every time I start-up Thunderbird, a series of 2 pop-ups from Yahoo open up: [ Sign in using your Yahoo account ]. I close the pop-up and a 2nd one pops-up. I close it and say 10 or 15 mins they pop back up in the same series. It's very frustrating. I can't tell if it's Yahoo or a scam cookie. I notice the URL at the top of page and it's the same one every time and every day. The same URL shows: "https://login.yahoo.com/?src=thunderbird&client_id=dj0yJmk9NUtCTWFMNVpTaVJmJmQ9WVdrOVJ6UjVTa2xJTXpRbWNHbzlNQS0tJnM9Y29uc3VtZXJzZWNyZXQmeD0yYw--&crumb=uE2cxQuNxpE&login_hint= ..." <... it goes on for a few more lines. It's long. I went to Firefox and cleared all 'cache' and 'cookies' and they still pop-up in Thunderbird. Heck, they just popped up again while writing you! How do I stop this intrusion while using Thunderbird? Thanks, RonD

I can't sign-in to my Thunderbird account on my laptop. It's not recognizing my password. I've turned off the computer and opened the program again, to no avail. ANY help would be much appreciated! Thanks!

I recently had to re-install Windows again, because of microsoft updates messing up my PC. As always, I have to repeat the process of adding my emails to Thunderbird. I was able to add my gmail without too much trouble. However, I am unable to add my hotmails because the link Thunderbird is providing is incorrect. The login for my hotmail comes up, but when I click to add my password for the email, it gives me the following message. "You can't sign in here with a personal account. Use your work or school account instead." I have always had ONLY a personal account. I don't even know what a work/ school account is! I have never had this problem before. What the heck is going on here? Please fix these login links, so I can add my hotmails asap. Cheers!

I cannot be more specific I dont know how to name the items that are missing 1 Cant open new email to send 2 Cant download my emails 3 Cant open an address on my new email to be sent 4 I want to reset my factory reset my Thunderbird so I can start to use it again 5 Cannot find my passwords, keep on been refused axcess to my emails

Fired up 128.2.1 this morning -- worked fine. Pulled email of my Office365 and gmail accounts no problem. Noticed there was a point update to 128.2.2 - applied the update, but now both Office365 and Gmail fail to authenticate. Time out.

Anyone else seeing this?

It's outrageous suddenly being locked out of mail box . It contains QC N° of locker containing a food parcel I need to pick up to day.!

I am 87 years old and do not understand what I am supposed to do!!

how to you get Tbird to stop going directly to the email page! we need Tbird to have a log on page? why does Tbird go directly to email from the icon!!! very bad. .anyone can click on the icon and see all mail

My password automatically enters my account in my computer. It also works on my laptop. No problem. I have not needed to know the password since it goes automatically to my site. I have used the email site for many, many years & it continues to work well. However I want to put the site also on my phone. Going to settings on my computer, the password that is shown does not work when I enter it on my phone? I am not computer savvy but would like to have the site on my phone. I don't know why the settings password doesn't work? Please help. Thanks so much.

I described this problem on this forum a couple of hours ago--but I now know any response to help me will come via email--which I cannot access due to the password problem. I was using Thunderbird mail when up pops this pop-up asking for my password. I have never had to use a password to access my emails with thunderbird email. I tried a Yahoo mail password, a mozilla account password, a thunderbird account password--none are wanted. I can't find where to change a password or add a new password.

How can I get some help not sent via email.

Ruth Lewis [edited email from community support forum]

Have no idea to whom I was chatting a week or so ago, but outlook.office365.com was recommended to me as the incoming server setting for Outlook.com. Set TB that way and used it for a week or so. TODAY got a "failure to authenticate" error from TB (have had many such errors before). Went directly to Copilot, as I thought it would be the most authoritarian place to clear up Microsoft problems. It provided the informaiton below: Official Outlook.com Thunderbird Incoming Server Settings (2026) IMAP (recommended) Settings Server name: imap-mail.outlook.com Port: 993 Security: SSL/TLS Authentication; OAuth2 Username; Your full Outlook.com email address

Why this is the correct server Outlook.com, Hotmail, Live, and MSN accounts do not use outlook.office365.com .

Set outlook account incoming server to imap-mail.outlook.com and reset TB Immediately got: Mozilla Thunderbird Thunderbird Authentication failure while connecting to server imap-mail.outlook.com.

Can someone please tell what's going on?

Hi, this seems to be a strange issue. I have a hotmail.com and outlook.com account as well as gmail. The hotmail one was in general use/default. It recently stopped authenticating over my main PC Thunderbird installation. The PC is a new build and was listed as a "known device" in the MS account settings. I tried removing it and it seems to not matter. But it all worked fine for awhile up until Meadows. It has authenticated a handful of times since then, particularly if I'm logged into the MSN account via the web, but not always.

I've tried changing to POP instead of IMAP and that removes the authentication error pop up message but it still won't update the folders/doesn't work. There's just no error message, so I changed the server settings back to IMAP.

It's all the same settings as worked previously including on this very computer. The same settings work with the outlook.com email, including on Thunderbird on this PC. But that wasn't in daily use or as default. The one that's no longer authenticating however was.

I've tried switching to a new profile and it doesn't work. Tried reinstalling Thunderbird and deleting old profiles to fully recreate, doesn't help.

Outgoing on this same failed account does work, only incoming will not Authenticate or update.

I have a laptop with a Win 11 and Thunderbird setup similar to as on the PC, works fine on the laptop with the same settings. In creating the accounts the "test server settings" feature returns no errors as well.

I can't tell where the actual source of failure is beyond that as the error message isn't very detailed or informative and based on the overall behaviour where it works flawlessly on the laptop, worked with those very settings previously on the now failing install, still works very rarely as well, up to and including on this same PC via Outlook program or over the web, with all the same settings. So it seems specific to Thunderbird, post Meadows update, on this PC, with only that email.

To further clarify, I have a second outlook.com based email, which still works with Thunderbird on this PC where the hotmail based account fails authentication. I also have tested the failing email via the Outlook program on this PC, including over the web by logging in with Firefox, that all works, just like it works with the laptop.

What I haven't tried to do when reinstalling Thunderbird is scrape every hint of prior installs out of it, but I did delete all of the profiles folders and content. I also just tried creating a new profile and making it the default. None of that helped.

Thanks