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unintentially closing Thunderbird on my desktop

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bdreagan
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7-16-2020 I use my Thunderbird with 3 emails. I DO NOT SAVE MY PASSWORDS so I must enter them every time I load Thunderbird. Many times I mistakenly close my Thunderbird. This is problematic in that now I have to enter all three passwords again to open. It is intrusive in my work when I did not intend to close my email.

1 - IS THERE A SETTING/OPTONS FOR THUNDERBIRD TO ASK WHEN CLOSING 

    ' "ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO CLOSE THUNDERBIRD?"'
   or  is there some solution for such that does not require another app to control such.

2 - If there is no such setting I RECOMMEND such a warning be available in the OPTIONS with a YES or NO that the user could activate!!!!

I am sure there are many that have more than 3 emails and would find this beneficial.

thanks bdreagan

7-16-2020 I use my Thunderbird with 3 emails. I DO NOT SAVE MY PASSWORDS so I must enter them every time I load Thunderbird. Many times I mistakenly close my Thunderbird. This is problematic in that now I have to enter all three passwords again to open. It is intrusive in my work when I did not intend to close my email. 1 - IS THERE A SETTING/OPTONS FOR THUNDERBIRD TO ASK WHEN CLOSING '''' "ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO CLOSE THUNDERBIRD?"'''' or is there some solution for such that does not require another app to control such. 2 - If there is no such setting I RECOMMEND such a warning be available in the OPTIONS with a YES or NO that the user could activate!!!! I am sure there are many that have more than 3 emails and would find this beneficial. thanks bdreagan

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Matt
Matt
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1. No there is not.

2. The decision not to implement such a thing was made 13 years ago https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39057

Most of us use the password password manager to save email passwords. Those that are concerned for the privacy of the passwords at rest use a master password to encrypt the passwords in storage a second time. So they can not be access programmatically without user input of the password.

sfhowes
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You could use the Minimize on Close add-on so that clicking the Close button accidentally would not close TB, and require an extra, deliberate step to exit.

Wayne Mery
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If you are closing accidentally by clicking X in the window, enable the new system tray feature in Options