Join the AMA (Ask Me Anything) with the Firefox leadership team to celebrate Firefox 20th anniversary and discuss Firefox’s future on Mozilla Connect. Mark your calendar on Thursday, November 14, 18:00 - 20:00 UTC!

Avatar for Username

Zoeken in Support

Vermijd ondersteuningsscams. We zullen u nooit vragen een telefoonnummer te bellen, er een sms naar te sturen of persoonlijke gegevens te delen. Meld verdachte activiteit met de optie ‘Misbruik melden’.

Meer info

Deze conversatie is gearchiveerd. Stel een nieuwe vraag als u hulp nodig hebt.

Mozilla Thunderbird - Primary Password

  • 2 antwoorden
  • 0 hebben dit probleem
  • 2 weergaven
  • Laatste antwoord van sfhowes

375835622546234
375835622546234
more options

Hi,

I would like to kindly ask you about a Primary Password to Mozilla Thunderbird software. I am wondering about the sense of this feature and why it works in so narrow range.

Everyone who's using Mozilla Thunderbird can easily set a Primary Password in Tools > Settings > Privacy & Security > Passowrds > check Use a Primary Password tab. There is also a short description about this feature: A Primary Password protects all your passwords, but you must enter it once per session.

I am wondering why it protect only in that way? Why this password do not protect from reading all messages for email accounts. After all, informations included in emails are the most important value I would like to protect.

As a user, I would really like to and wish to have a built-in feature which will protect all my emails in Mozilla Thunderbird, not only user settings and passwords.

regards,

Hi, I would like to kindly ask you about a Primary Password to Mozilla Thunderbird software. I am wondering about the sense of this feature and why it works in so narrow range. Everyone who's using Mozilla Thunderbird can easily set a Primary Password in Tools > Settings > Privacy & Security > Passowrds > check Use a Primary Password tab. There is also a short description about this feature: A Primary Password protects all your passwords, but you must enter it once per session. I am wondering why it protect only in that way? Why this password do not protect from reading all messages for email accounts. After all, informations included in emails are the most important value I would like to protect. As a user, I would really like to and wish to have a built-in feature which will protect all my emails in Mozilla Thunderbird, not only user settings and passwords. regards,

Alle antwoorden (2)

david
david
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

You are right; there is a bug filed for this issue and the bug is periodically discussed in bugzilla, but no resolution has been decided. Yes, this needs to be fixed. Thanks for the reminder and I will share the info.

sfhowes
sfhowes
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

Primary passwords, which only protect access to the passwords, are fairly useless. If you want to guard access to your mail and any other data, the simplest and most established way is to have password-protected operating system user accounts, even if you're the only user of the device.