On 10/06/2015 08:43 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hi,
I have several accounts defined in Thunderbird. It keeps the passwords for all of them, protected with a master password.
When I start Thunderbird, the sequence goes like this (from recent memory):
a) it pops up several message boxes, asking for the password of each mail account.
Instead of waiting for the master password before starting connecting to the accounts.
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.
Well DUH! Mine does none of that. I log on to the computer and T[Bird comes up in one window, firefox in another, a bunch of Konsoles in another. All the email accounts are brought up; it happens that most of them are IMAP ... no wait, all of them at the T'bird level are IMAP, the POP ones get dealt with by a local aka-mailhub with dovecot. I entered the passwords when I set up the various IMAP accounts and told the T'Bird to remember them. http://en.flossmanuals.net/thunderbird/ch014_account-set-up/_booki/thunderbi... So I get none of this nonsense! As Linda points out, I log in to the computer. that's the gateway, threshold, hurdle, whatever you choose to view it as. The computer is there for my convenience. Its not there to make life more awkward ever time I use it. What about, you ask, passwords for web sites? Well guess what? There are many tools and utilities for remembering those. The whole point of this modern day and age is that we're drowning in demands for authentication, and not just at the computer. So we automate it. Are you really so paranoid as to require this process? I suspect not, otherwise you wouldn't be asking about it.
And this happens on two computers at least, so I doupbt it is misconfiguration on my part, but... who knows :-?
Well it *is* a configuration issue. IIR when you enter the password, on the form there is a check-box to tell the system to remember it. But it may be you have that turned off? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Password_not_remembered_%28Thunderbird%29#No_check... -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org