On 2/24/21 10:52 PM, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I'm not understanding this--"all" my passwords. There is only one password to receive or send email, altho I have been pestered to reenter the email password almost every time I want to send an email. This is recent behavior, and it's what brought on this thread. Or is it actually trying to be a wallet for the system? And if it is, does that mean I have to leave email open all the time in order to provide a password on Firefox, for example? Please explain.
BLUF: There are two passwords for each email account. As used now, sending and receiving email are two separate and independent processes. Each process requires its own username and password. Thunderbird manages these two username/password pairs for each account you may have. It doesn't know about Chrome, Firefox, or your Linux login. If you tell Thunderbird to remember your sending and receiving passwords, and not use a master Thunderbird password, you will never be bothered by a mail-related password again. This whole thing may seem a bit complicated, but it's not too bad once you understand how the whole thing works. Also realize that email as we see it now is the product of an evolutionary process spanning many years. Sort of like the car that Johnny Cash built "One Piece at a Time". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIuo0KIqD_E In the beginning there was a server. And then there were two, and both were with UNIX. Someone want to pick up the rest as a separate thread? Regards, Lew Mostly because it seemed like a neat idea. There was no directive to ‘go forth and invent e-mail’. — Ray Tomlinson, answering a question about why he invented e-mail