Thunderbird's Master Password returns upon reboot
After seemingly losing my Master Password for the second time when running Thunderbird on Windows XP, I didn't reset the MP like I did the last time.
Instead, I turned the box off. This morning, I turned it back on and started Thunderbird. I tried my Master Password. It worked.
So rebooting made everything right with Thunderbird.
I feel better already. What's the use of a Master Password if it gets irretrievably scrambled every time Thunderbird crashes. Not that I like Thunderbird to be crashing at all, but that's another matter.
For the moment, my faith is restored in Thunderbird in general and in mail clients in particular. Mail — particularly in multiple accounts — is much easier to deal with in a stand-alone mail client.
I have two IMAP accounts under Thunderbird, plus a bunch of local folders into which I'm stashing various messages in an attempt to bring some kind of logic and order to my mail, and it's working.
As long as Thunderbird is working, it's working, anyway.
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Steven Rosenberg aims to learn what he does not know. He writes about it here.
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