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Magnus Boman wrote:
> Carlos,
> 
> On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 14:37 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a nuisance in Thunderbird.
>>
>> When I try to send an email via my provider smtp server, it discovers it
>> needs a password and asks for my master password. I type it, but by this
>> time the smtp session timed out in the server (I guess) and fails.

<snip>

> 
> That would be a very bad thing to do (TM). Reason is that if you're with
> a provide or company with a policy to only allow three (or however many)
> tries before you locked out, and you're also forced to change password
> periodically, guess what's going to happen....
> Probably better to find out why it fails the first time, unfortunately I
> am not the right person for that job.
> 
>> -- 
>> Cheers,
>>       Carlos E. R.
>>       (from RC1)
> 
> Cheers,
> Magnus
> 

Have you tried configuring postfix to connect to the smtp server and
configuring thunderbird to use localhost as the the smtp server. Postfix
will deal with the password sending in the background... I believe you
can also configure postfix to adjust to just what you need to connect to
according what you are connecting on...


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