Thunderbird does not ask for password when sending second mail !!!

[Basil Chupin]

On 13/07/12 15:44, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 07/12/2012 04:07 AM, Gilles Gravier wrote:

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>>
>> Think "sudo" when you use "sudo" you get prompted for a password. If you
>> use sudo immediately after, no need to re-enter a password. If you wait
>> a few minutes, you are prompted again for your password. Sudo is a
>> dangerous command that somebody using your session should not be able to
>> re-use if you used it before giving them access. Same goes for sending
>> e-mail (in some contexts as explained above).
> If you never ticked the "remember password" box, it would ask you each 
> time. I just checked, it ought to be somewhere in 
> .thunderbird/<userprofile> prefs.js
> I didn't find it there, but I would hazard a guess that a closer 
> inspection should find it. Ric

Absolutely correct - but I didn't want to bring this up when responding 
to Jatin.

Thunderbird asks you the *first* time you use it if you want to it to 
remember the password. If you answer "NO" then you have to keep entering 
your password each and every time you want to collect your messages or 
send them. A total and absolute mind-boggling waste of time.

For Firefox the situation re password(s) is different - at least as far 
as connecting to your *ISP* because you enter your password for your ISP 
in your MODEM. Whenever you start Firefox and it goes to connect to your 
ISP it automatically sends the password -- and with no connection to 
your ISP you have no Thunderbird to collect/send mail and no browser.

However, when you use some website which requires a password for you to 
access it then Firefox will ask if you want it to remember this 
password. You also have the option of also using an additional MASTER 
password (this is set in the Preferences) which is an added security 
measure - but is also a bit of a pain in the butt because you need to 
enter this Master password each time you go to any site which requires 
you to enter a password to gain access to it (lets' say, a bank or, 
better still, a porn site 8-) ).

(I'll stop here before I go blind! :-D .)

BC

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