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How does Thunderbird know my password when I didn't provde it?

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jjthomas
jjthomas
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New install of Fedora 23. Setting up Thunderbird.

The Mail Account Setup box pops up. I put in my user name, Email address and Password; Remember password, is checked. Click continue and verify that my settings are correct.

I open up my inbox julian@foobar.com It has the standard mailboxes, plus two mailboxes from julian@oldfoobar.com and otheraccount@oldfoobar.com and it gets mail from both of the oldfoobar.com mailboxes. How?

I searched my drive for the password and user name for the oldfoobar.com domains, they do not exist.

How is this happening.

New install of Fedora 23. Setting up Thunderbird. The Mail Account Setup box pops up. I put in my user name, Email address and Password; Remember password, is checked. Click continue and verify that my settings are correct. I open up my inbox julian@foobar.com It has the standard mailboxes, plus two mailboxes from julian@oldfoobar.com and otheraccount@oldfoobar.com and it gets mail from both of the oldfoobar.com mailboxes. How? I searched my drive for the password and user name for the oldfoobar.com domains, they do not exist. How is this happening.

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Zenos
Zenos
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You can see stored passwords at:

Edit|Preferences|Security|Passwords→Saved Passwords

Is it lurking in there?

Being encrypted, I would hope that a regular search wouldn't be able to find them.

jjthomas
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I checked and the passwords are not there. The only place the passwords are stored is Keepass. I removed all my Thunderbird files and reinstalled it, with Keepass closed. I got the same result.

I removed all my Thunderbird files and did a search in my home directory for both the julian@oldfoobar.com and otheraccount@oldfoobar.com as well as part of their passwords, just to make sure there wasn't a hidden file anywhere. There were not files containing either my user name or my password (I admit I really didn't want to see my unencrypted password).

Thank you

-Julian

jjthomas
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I think we can close this. I worked with my hosting provider and we found the problem was with my mail server and not with Thunderbird.

Thank you for the assist.

-Julian