No password required
Yahoo has made changes recently, supposedly in the name of security, that have had quite the opposite effect for those of us who use Thunderbird for email on shared computers. Before Yahoo's recent changes, Thunderbird would ask users to enter their password before connecting to the email server. This is no longer the case. Now, when logging into Thunderbird, there is no dialog box popping up for entering a password, Thunderbird just automatically connects. This needs to be corrected. Hopefully someone at Mozilla is listening and will take action.
So far, the only work-around I have found has been to go into Account Settings, Thuderbird Preferences, Saved Passwords, and deleting the oauth password that was automatically saved when I jumped through Yahoo's hoops to get my email working again after they implemented their recent changes. This has to be done EACH SESSION and, if this is done, then the next time I want to get my email I have to repeat the process of generating a new oauth token by logging into Yahoo by way of my browser, which will then be saved once again in Thunderbird and will, once again, need to be deleted at the end of the session. This is obviously a colossal PITA.
Someone PLEASE FIX THIS!
Chosen solution
click settings>privacy&security and tick the box for a primary password. BE CAREFUL that it is one you remember, as you will need to use it each time you start Thunderbird.
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I am confused. The purpose of the Oauth2 pass code is to automate the login process for you. This is not something Thunderbird is doing on its own, but following the established security process of the email provider. My suggestion is to let the process do its thing. If you still want to protect the accounts, I suggest adding a Primary Password to prevent others from signing in to Thunderbird.
As a followup, that pass code Yahoo gives you works ONLY on that one PC, so stealing it would accomplish nothing.
Yahoo stated the change was required to improve security. They said nothing about it automating the process, that was a most unfortunate after the fact discovery. According to Yahoo, there is no way to use a third party email program with email addresses provided by Yahoo anymore without configuring the software to use oauth.
What would be the process for adding a password so other users of the same computer cannot log into my Thunderbird account?
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click settings>privacy&security and tick the box for a primary password. BE CAREFUL that it is one you remember, as you will need to use it each time you start Thunderbird.
Thank you! That solved the problem. Don't know why I didn't see that option before myself. I really appreciate the help.
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