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master password problems

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philt
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I have set up a master password on my Thunderbird email so that I get a prompt at startup to enter the password. However if you just click Cancel 3 times you have immediate access to all my emails. What should happen is that if Cancel is clicked the application should just close down. I have 3 email accounts in the Thunderbird so that is probably why clicking Cancel 3 times gets rid of the password prompt? PC running Thunderbird 52.2.1 (32-bit) under Windows 7 PRO

I have set up a master password on my Thunderbird email so that I get a prompt at startup to enter the password. However if you just click Cancel 3 times you have immediate access to all my emails. What should happen is that if Cancel is clicked the application should just close down. I have 3 email accounts in the Thunderbird so that is probably why clicking Cancel 3 times gets rid of the password prompt? PC running Thunderbird 52.2.1 (32-bit) under Windows 7 PRO

Saafara biñ tànn

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Protect_the_profiles_contents

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Matt
Matt
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Read this https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/protect-your-thunderbird-passwords-master-password

As you can see the master password protects passwords. Not mail.

philt
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OK thanks Matt. I was just wanting to use it as a gatekeeper so that the application wouldn't even open without the master password and therefore preventing access to my emails.

christ1
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Saafara yiñ Tànn

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Protect_the_profiles_contents