On 09/23/2007 08:37 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: > I have a nuisance in Thunderbird. > It is a setting. You control the settings for your system. > When I try to send an email via my provider smtp server, it discovers it > needs a password and asks for my master password. You can control this with Preferences, Privacy, Passwords, and uncheck Use a Master password to encrypt stored passwords. This is a security feature, but if you do not want it, that is your choice. > I type it, but by this > time the smtp session timed out in the server (I guess) and fails. > Easily fixed by correctly configuring your smtp settings in Account Settings. Username and password are easily entered there. > I try again, and this time Th. asks for my smtp password and whether I > want to keep it. Why? Because you did not fill it in. > He already knows that! It knows you need it because the smtp server requires it, it knows you did not provide it, and you complain it asks you to do something you may have forgotten to do? Must be a bad day Carlos > This is a nuisance, because > I use random passwords difficult to remember and have look it up. > No you don't. Enter them in the Settings for the correct smtp server. > Is there a way to make Thunderbird remember my password for ever and not > ask for it again, Yes, that is what it does when it stores your password. > even if it fails? No. If it fails, the server asks for a correct password, which after the entered one fails, it only passes on to the user. That is the correct thing for it to do. > I want to be able to enter the > password in the configuration, not as a pop up when I want to send or > receive. Then you may in Account Settings, Outgoing Servers (SMTP). > I do not want to be asked again if it fails, because once > configured the password it keeps being correct. > If it is correct, it will not ask and it will not fail. If it fails, then it is not correct and has to be corrected. I don't believe it saves a password until it is accepted and works the initial time. HTH.
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