Password Shown in Preferences/Saved Passwords Does not Match Correct Password
I am truly baffled: I'm trying to fix a problem on my husband's Thunderbird and was checking my own Thunderbird settings (my own Thunderbird is working fine with our ATT email account). The password shown for both the inbound and outbound ATT email are the same string of random letters and numbers. This is NOT my ATT password. ??? This makes no sense to me at all. Hope you can help me understand this.
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The secure key takes the place of the regular account password in TB, so that's why you see it in Saved Passwords. With gmail accounts, you should see a similar complex string of characters labelled oauth://, instead of the account password, if the authentication method on the gmail account is OAuth2, the recommended choice, same for Yahoo, AOL and a few others.
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ATT / Yahoo require a mail key https://www.att.com/support/article/email-support/KM1240308/
My question is not about the receiving and sending of email with Thunderbird, it is about how the password is displayed. My Thunderbird email is working just fine. But the password displayed in the Preferences/Privacy and Security/Passwords, when I click on Show Passwords are not the actual passwords for the ATT account. The actual passwords for the Gmail account are displayed. I am using the key for the ATT email account.
Chosen Solution
The secure key takes the place of the regular account password in TB, so that's why you see it in Saved Passwords. With gmail accounts, you should see a similar complex string of characters labelled oauth://, instead of the account password, if the authentication method on the gmail account is OAuth2, the recommended choice, same for Yahoo, AOL and a few others.