On 4/22/2017 7:22 PM, Arnie Goetchius wrote:
DICK HOFFMAN wrote:
On 4/22/2017 6:23 PM, DICK HOFFMAN wrote:
On 4/22/2017 6:16 PM, DICK HOFFMAN wrote:
On 4/22/2017 5:42 PM, Arnie Goetchius wrote:
DICK HOFFMAN wrote:
On 4/22/2017 2:36 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
On 4/22/2017 11:22 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
DICK HOFFMAN wrote:
There is probably a simple answer to this but I can't find it.
Several
months ago after I "upgraded" to Windows 10 I noticed that SeaMonkey
(probably started in rel 2.45 but continuing in 2.46) was no longer
prompting me for the password for my primary email account. When I
started up SM mail it had apparently saved my password and was
providing
it automatically. Today, it has reverted back to my previous
experience
where it asks for a password every time before contacting my ISP.
Any
ideas on how I got it to remember my password and then how I got
it to
forget it would be appreciated.
Dick
Edit > Preferences... > Security & Passwords
checkbox: Remember passwords
button: Manage Stored Passwords
For some still unknown reason, such binary settings are sometimes
lost.
When I encounter this problem with Thunderbird, however, it usually
results from a failure in the E-mail server's authentication process.
The failure to authenticate then sometimes causes Thunderbird to
delete
the credentials (ID and password). This situation might also exist in
SeaMonkey's MailNews component, which substantially replicates the
same
Thunderbird component.
I looked at this option in Password Manager. As far as I can tell,
I've always
had "Remember passwords" checked. Checking and unchecking this
doesn't have any
affect on my mail passwords although it seems to cause the saving or
not saving
of passwords needed by sites I go to with the browser portion of SM.
I have two
other mail accounts that have always required that I enter a
password. Any other
ideas?
Dick
Under Edit, Mail & Newsgroup Settings, Outgoing Server (SMTP),
Authentication
Method should be set to Normal Password. The next time you login, it
still may
ask for your password but it will then be saved in the SMTP section.
I don't see any such option under Edit, Mail & Newsgroup Settings on my
SM 2.46 system. The only reference to SMTP that I can find is in Account
Settings for the mail server and that only asks for an outgoing server
name. I'm using POP, BTW.
Dick
I spoke too soon. Under "Account Settings" the last item is Outgoing
Server and has a line for Authentication. I'll change from "Any secure
method" to "Normal Password" and see what happens.
Dick
To change from "Any secure method" to "Normal password" I had to change
"Connection Security" to either SSL/TLS or STARTTLS. Neither had any impact on
whether or not my password was retained across logins.
Dick
Bummer. On the extremely remote possibility that your ISP changed the SMTP
parameters, you might want to check their website to make sure you are using
their latest. I remember several years ago when typing in my username as
arnie.goetchius was sufficient. One day, the ISP changed the requirement to such
that I had to change my username to arnie.goetch...@xxx.zzz
Good idea, Arnie, but there's been no change that I can see. Same
settings since the ISP was NETCOM. I've run out of ideas on this one.
Dick
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