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a) it pops up several message boxes, asking for the password of each mail account.
Often, once the master password is entered, the sessions with the ISP have timed out, and the connections fail; then Thunderbird asks if it should retry. Another bunch of dialogs to close.
This has been hapening for years. ==== You have a login password to your computer. Is it subject to
Carlos E. R. wrote: people prying around on it when you aren't around? I.e. do you 'need' a password for your email accounts? In the current Tbird, unless you configure it otherwise (at the loss of some functionality), *all your messages* are already downloaded to your local computer in your Thunderbird profile folder (on windows they put it in the *roaming folder* that would be synchronized back to the server on logout and resync'ed to your computer when you login -- that's on *windows*), Anyway they didn't used to encrypt them, so if some one had access to your computer, they could look in your profile and read all your 'read' messages. The old Tbird used to leave IMAP messages on the server by default, but starting in TB3, it wanted to do global indexing and sorting across mailboxes. The writer of my fav extension (threadvis) had to keep his own database on your computer of how notes connected (the references). so the threading could be displayed even though most of the folder contents wasn't on the local computer. But with TB3, he threw out his DB and went to relying on the downloaded cache that TB3 created from then on. I was going to readapt the older version to the newer TB, but the newer TB kept crashing more often... so still at TB2.
b) it asks for the master password - but in several message boxes.
--- FF does the same if your restore a session... if you were in the middle of any secure sessions, it asked for your pw so it could reconnect to the secure resource.
It is expected to prompt for that password - but once! Since a few months back, it asks several times. Before it asked just once.
---- well FF did it once for each site, so if you had 10 windows open on 3 sites, and restarted saving tabs, it would come up and ask for the master PW 3 times usually before you could enter it once... though if the net was slow, and you entered the master PW quickly, then the other windows might not come up. Maybe they optimized connecting on tbird or it's default "cached" connections was raised so it connects to more boxes in parallel, thus hitting the need for the master-pw more quickly. Note, cached connections is in the advanced properties for an account. I go back and forth sometimes with many sometimes few. Since I gave up trying to read email via IMAPS over my dedicated, closed network connection to my server, (rest of house is on separate 1Gb connection that goes through switches, but I wanted to try 10Gb -- and 10Gb switches are pretty expensive -- especially if you want them to support bonding/teaming (which I did when I first set it up, only to realize the HW wasn't fast enough to keep up with 1-10Gb connection, let alone 2 -- but it's still the case that the connection between my desktop(Win) and server(Lin) is a single cable w/no intervening switches) I find tbird can handle many more parallel connections to dovecot, so I have the limit set to about 40-50 for now. Whereas before, with only 3-5 connections, Tbird would be so slow opening each connection that it would timeout... Ug. (this was after I'd disabled SSL, and I guess the TLS implementation wasn't as well tested/optimized?) So....who knows...maybe they raised the number of parallel connects to compensate for slower authentication? -linda -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org