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Re: need help on setting up thunderbird

From <tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: need help on setting up thunderbird
Date 2021-08-05 10:20 +0200
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On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 10:08:55AM +0200, didier gaumet wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> >From memory (so take it with a grain of salt), when Thunderbird asks
> for a password to access a mail server for the first time [...]

This is more or less my recollection, yes.

> I would imagine that is somewhat similar to certain distros that
> propose a desktop environment auto-login: that is not mandatory and the
> user may chose to discard this feature if he considers it a security
> risk
> 
> Cheers :-)

My beef was not so much about (the choice of) storing your password
or not, but about *not* giving the user the possibility of entering
it when setting up the account, along with the other account data
(SMTP server, IMAP, etc.).

Cheers :-)
 - t

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need help on setting up thunderbird <loushanguan2015@sina.com> - 2021-08-05 01:40 +0200
  Re: need help on setting up thunderbird Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2021-08-05 02:10 +0200
  Re: need help on setting up thunderbird <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-08-05 09:30 +0200
    Re: need help on setting up thunderbird didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2021-08-05 10:10 +0200
      Re: need help on setting up thunderbird <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-08-05 10:20 +0200
        Re: need help on setting up thunderbird lou <loushanguan2015@sina.com> - 2021-08-05 12:50 +0200
          Re: need help on setting up thunderbird asoeldner@gmx.de - 2021-08-05 12:50 +0200
          Re: need help on setting up thunderbird <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-08-05 14:00 +0200
            Re: need help on setting up thunderbird lou <loushanguan2015@sina.com> - 2021-08-05 23:00 +0200
              Re: need help on setting up thunderbird <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-08-06 08:50 +0200

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