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Thunderbird keeps asking for password even if the password is correct

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http://askubuntu.com – I'm using thunderbird-11 on ubuntu 12.04. Recently after an update suddenly thunderbird is no longer able to recognize my password and keeps asking for it with the message "login failed - retry". I know my password is correct because my calendar in thunderbird which uses the same password and my webmail is able to take that password. I'm connecting to a 2010 Outlook exchange using imap. Tried deleting key3.db signons* , removing saved password, reinstalling thunderbird but nothing helped. Not being ale to send mails is frustrating :-( !! (HowTos)

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OK, I'm tried setting up pop and IMAP. I follow the directions to the T but I keep getting "incorrect username or password."

I reset my password (I don't have outlook right now) to something simple so I couldn't screw it up, but same problem.

It is supposed to be exchange password, correct?

I haven't used thunderbird for a while but when i started to use it again I found out that i have to give the application driven password since i'm using gmail. So i types that application password which is automatically given by the google, but it asks for that every time i try to login.

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Thunderbird 3 in 11.3 2 years 47 weeks ago

I did an upgrade from 11.1 -> 11.3 and I find myself locked out of Thunderbird. I was hoping I could downgrade to Thunderbird 2.x in 11.3 but that doesn't seem possible. I just don't get the double-passwords needed for the new Thunderbird. Is it really as hard as I'm making it? It's asking for a password that I never set. Help! Patti

Currently Thunderbird has its own password manager, but it offers two possibilities: either you don't encrypt the password stored, or you use another password to encrypt the actual one for e-mail. This sounds quite useless to me, so I would prefer to store Thunderbird passwords in GNOME keyring. Hope this is possible.

I have a very strange issue! SASL does not work properly, as it does not accept plain-text passwords (like Outlook sends them)

Oct 2 10:35:09 srf cyrus/imap[4119]: accepted connection Oct 2 10:35:09 srf cyrus/imap[4119]: badlogin: [217.XX.XXX.140] plaintext user@domain.com SASL(-1): generic failure: checkpass failed

Now I switch to "Encrypted password" in Thunderbird.

I am trying to setup my Gmail with Thunderbird. I put in the details, the imap and smtp settings were filled in automatically. They were correct I checked.

Initially when I clicked on done, to create a new account, Thunderbird gave an alert telling me either the username or password is invalid. However, it was not.

I'm sure that I have correctly added my BT Yahoo calendar, as every time I start Thunderbird 17.0 I am asked for User ID and Password for calendar, which I provide, but none of the events in my BT Yahoo calendar show up, it remains completely empty.

When asking for User ID and Password it says something about Zimbra server which I don't understand.

Any suggestions?

I would take this question over to Mozilla.org and not here at askubuntu.com except for the following:

This is a brand new install of Ubuntu, Firefox and Thunderbird. On the same computer I also have band new installs of Firefox and Thunderbird for the Wondows7 partition. And they are running perfectly. One of the Firefox lockups is totally reproducible.