Re: Devin's effort

On 4/21/2015 9:59 AM, Whitney Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you mean "restrict viewing of client-side information", I don't think 
> it's configurable in TB.

If I understand you correctly, then no, this feature is not available.

> If you mean "individual login for each account on the mail server(s)"
> it's there.  I have all the "work" emails setup to "remember
> password" and the personal mail set up to "ask for password".  IIRC
> if you ask it to "remember password" it does, thereafter,

There are two parts to what you are discussing...

1. Automatically check for new messages

2. Storing the username/password

#1 can be configured per account, and can also set an interval for
ongoing periodic checking.

#2 comes into play when an account is checked - if the creds are stored,
it just works - if not, it prompts for the password.

Last - these usernames/passwords do NOT protect the existing mail store.
Even for IMAP accounts, if the emails are already fully downloaded, you
could switch to offline mode and read the ones that are there even if
you don't know the password to check for NEW messages.

All of this said, if security is your goal, the best way to protect your
Thunderbird profile would be to have it on an encrypted partition or
container (Truecrypt, or now one of the variants would be the best way
to do this). Easiest is to simply password protect your user profile
(Whether Mac, Windows or Linux), and don't tell your password to anyone
else.

> and a brief look didn't show me how to make it forget. Hopefully this
> was what you're asking and someone else can fill the detail of how to
> reset it back to "ask me".

Tools > Options > Security > Passwords