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The password is correct as I can use it to login at the Spectrum site. Somehow Thunderbird doesn't like the password or is handing it off to Spectrum in correctly.

Setting seem to be fine.

Any ideas? If I can't fix I'll need to move to another email program. Would hate to say goodbye to T-Bird. It doesn't seem to be a T-Bird issue though..

Version 128.2.3esr

I Reset my Windows 11 PC several days ago and it was a disaster. I have lost all my passwords and settings and am gradually getting things sorted. So far, I have set up Thunderbird with all 8 email accounts and the messages are all there and new ones are added successfully. Quite a chore as I relied on password manager to keep my passwords.

My current problem is that I want to protect Thunderbird from another disaster as I may have to reinstall Windows to resolve a recurring problem with my Touchpad. Apart from the Profile what else do I need to save in One Drive. I especially don't want to lose the emails or account passwords as it took me so long to get just the Accounts set up. Changing passwords when you forget them has become quite a chore with authentication and on Mozilla, a special code I don't remember being given. I was locked out of this site for a night.

I have just signed up to One Drive for 100GB but I'm keeping backups of Photos, Docs on a thumb drive as I don't produce very much. I never want to be in this situation again.

What do I need to include in One Drive? Profile and? Does the same apply to Firefox?

I'm still trying to get the Snipping Tool to work. It takes the snip, saves it, but when I try and copy it it fails.

Well, I have just tried it here and it works just fine, hence the photo below. It didn't work in MS!!

I have used Thunderbird for years on an iMac (O.S Monterey 12.7.6) until now when it will not open. I have tried to download and re-set anew and while Thunderbird identifies the in and out servers I always receive the message "UNABLE TO LOG IN AT SERVER PROBABLY WRONG CONFIGURATION,USER NAME, OR PASSWORD'". My full name and email address are correct so I have tried every password I have ever used, without success. iCloud email works ok but I prefer the Thunderbird display. Please help as I do want to keep using Thunderbird which is a really good app. Thank you.

Starting in the last month or so, when I login to my email account using Thunderbird I get a Filesystem notification initialization error asking me to check for configuration errors in the FAM/Gamin library. (Side note the error only stays as long as my mouse is hovering over it then it vanishes so I can't get a screenshot or copy and paste the text.) I am still able to send messages, receive new messages, and access saved messages in my local folders, so I am not sure what this error means.

I just got off the phone with my email service provider who confirmed that they are not seeing any issues on the server end, so It appears to be something on the Thunderbird client side. I tried clearing the startup cache and that did not resolve the issue.

Using version 115.15.0 (64-bit) on PureOS which is a variant of Debian. PureOS is designed for extra security so there is a delay between the release of new versions and the time that purism.com releases the update to PureOS. It may be I just have to wait for Purism to release version 128...

Thanks for any suggestions.

Is it possible to use authentication with SCRAM-SHA-256 for SMTP and IMAP? I tried with the Thunderbird version 102.10.1 but failed to get that authentication. It doesn't seem to support SCRAM-SHA-256 from the error message. Could you please help me to solve this problem?