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THUNDERBIRD EMAIL KEEPS ASKING FOR PASSWORD UPDATE

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.

THUNDERBIRD EMAIL KEEPS ASKING FOR PASSWORD UPDATE

Here's an ironic kicker, BOTH my email addresses actually work on both my iPhone and my Mac both incoming and outgoing. 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'.

It just throws this error occasionally even though it actually works -) Like I say seems pretty sketchy on Apple's part as I have spent hours and hours trying to figure this out

Here's an ironic kicker, BOTH my email addresses actually work on both my iPhone and my Mac both incoming and outgoing.

Remember per previous bullet the FIRST email address at my domain was working FINE before I added the second email.

but WHEN I add my SECOND email address from my domain (I use two different emails addresses at my personal domain), it is only then that I start to get complaints from Mail about 'no password provided', and get this it is not complaining the password is missing from the SECOND email address, it complains the password is missing from the FIRST email address.

The workaround is to change your password in webmail to 16 characters or less, delete the saved password in Thunderbird using Tools -> Options -> Security -> Passwords, and restart Thunderbird. I had to do this Trust override on my Mac too so I was expecting this problem However, if you use a email client such as Windows Live Mail or Thunderbird with a password longer than 16 characters, it will fail.

when I setup my first personal domain email I had to tell my iPhone to trust my email provider's certificate since for whatever reason Apple feels the Certificate is invalid (it is a VALID certificate just Apple seems to have issues with it).Several odd things - NOTE: I have two of my own domain email accounts in addition to my account: Likewise I get the error 'cannot get mail' 'no password provided for xxxx'