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Subject: Re: [opensuse] Thunderbird password nuisance.
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:09:58 +1000
From: Basil Chupin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: OS-en <[email protected]>
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hi,
I have a nuisance in Thunderbird.
When I try to send an email via my provider smtp server, it discovers it
needs a password and asks for my master password. I type it, but by this
time the smtp session timed out in the server (I guess) and fails.
I try again, and this time Th. asks for my smtp password and whether I
want to keep it. Why? He already knows that! This is a nuisance, because
I use random passwords difficult to remember and have look it up.
Is there a way to make Thunderbird remember my password for ever and not
ask for it again, even if it fails? I want to be able to enter the
password in the configuration, not as a pop up when I want to send or
receive. I do not want to be asked again if it fails, because once
configured the password it keeps being correct.
Let's see if I can (possibly) clear things up here.
Everytime you call your ISP for mail TB has to send your username and
the password you use for that account. Occasionally, things go bad at
the ISP end and when a connection is made you are asked to send the
password - it's happened to me a number of times so I don't worry about now.
Now, when you are asked if you want to STORE/REMEMBER the password, it
is TB which is asking this question so that it can automacally send it
on the next logo-on. But in order for this to occur you have to
select/tick the option to always remember this password and to store it
(in TB) - if you don't then you will have to type the pswd at the next
(and subsequent) log-on.
The password(s) which TB uses are stored in
Edit/Preferences/Privacy/Passwords and there is an option to Edit Saved
Passwords.
Here you will also find the Master Password, which I don't bother with
but your mileage may vary.
Cheers.
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