Password not remembered - Thunderbird

1.

If a server is down, Thunderbird will forget your password and will keep asking you to re-enter it till it connects to the server or until you Cancel, whichever comes first.

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2.

It can happen, that you will find no checkbox in thunderbird to remember passwords. Here's the magical verse to change this:

Close the thunderbird.

Edit the file at (first make a backup copy, to edit use editor or notepad):

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\h6mw4cfg.default\prefs.js (the "username" above would be your user name, and the "h6mw4cfg" might be something else too.)

in the 4th line before the end you find following line:

user_pref("signon.rememberSignons", false);

change value false into true

save file

on the next startup of thunderbird you will find the checkbox for remembering the password in the password manager.