I cannot enter my EXISTING password into Thunderbird
I've had an account for decades. I regularly change the password, in the mail service's website. A few months ago I tried using Thunderbird ("portable" version) ... interesting product, grabbed lots of old mails ... closed down and carried on doing things normally through the website. In my normal website access, I changed the password. As normal. I now (weeks after changing the password) go back to the Thunderbird (portable) on the memory stick, find a Windows computer, plug it in and run it (i.e., this programme hasn't been run since months before the password was changed) ... and I cannot find how to EDIT or RE-ENTER the NEW password for the EXISTING account. I went to Tools/Options/ SavedPasswords - there are the old passwords, but no way to change or edit them. I deleted them - and no prompt to re-enter them. No I don't have certificates, an iris scanner or anything like that. Just an account name and a password.
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You were correct to delete them, you cannot edit passwords in Thunderbird.
Did you try to 'Get Messages' ? Did you restart Thunderbird to get a prompt when trying to connect to server?
For anyone who reads this...some generl info: 'Thunderbirdportable' is an official build of Thunderbird that has been repackaged "as a complete, removable drive-friendly email client." It is developed by 'portableapps.com'
They also have a forum:
RE-started (been busy - first time to try anything) and tried a connect. Just got a timed-out message. No prompt or anything.
I got another message by mail (don't ask me why!) Which tells me : "You don't edit them. You remove and replace. This tells you how. https://kb.wisc.edu/page.php" The link doesn't work with the terminal ".php", but stripping it gives a generic "Page not found" page.
Could whoever sent me the link try it again?
Following those instructions and I'm getting a prolonged session of Thunderbird trying to log in, but no "Mail Server Password Required." And I can't see any way to add an entry into the password manager. I'd look at ... no that's not going to work. No allowance for putting a second MAC onto the network, and this machine won't allow anything to be installed. I'll have to scrap evaluating Thunderbird until I'm back at home in a few weeks.