I can't believe I am asking such a fundamental question, but when I try to use the Account Wizard to set up an account, it doesn't ask me for my ISP password. Not suprinsingly, when I give everything else and the Wizard finishes and tries to access my server inbox, I get a password failure!
I note that in View Settings for this Account, it doesn't show any password field.
Clearly I am missing something pretty obvious, but I can't figure out how you input your password for your POP3 account or how you change it.
Thunderbird 5.1, just downloaded and being tested. Win XP.
How do you input POP3 password?
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tanstaafl
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Thunderbird doesn't let you supply the password when you configure the account. Instead, it prompts you for the password when needed. When that occurs it displays a checkbox to have the password saved by the password manager. If you check that checkbox it will store the password and automaticly use it from then on.
tools -> options -> privacy -> passwords -> "view saved passwords" lets you see the saved passwords.
Since you didn't get prompted for a password and got a password error message I suspect there is a problem with your username. Some email providers want you to enter the entire email address as the username while others want just the part to the left of the '@'. Its also possible you checked a checkbox such as use secure authentication (when you weren't supposed to) which prevented it from sending the username in a form that the POP server understood. I suggest you goto your email providers web page and take another look at thier instructions for configuring a email client.
tools -> options -> privacy -> passwords -> "view saved passwords" lets you see the saved passwords.
Since you didn't get prompted for a password and got a password error message I suspect there is a problem with your username. Some email providers want you to enter the entire email address as the username while others want just the part to the left of the '@'. Its also possible you checked a checkbox such as use secure authentication (when you weren't supposed to) which prevented it from sending the username in a form that the POP server understood. I suggest you goto your email providers web page and take another look at thier instructions for configuring a email client.