Shoutbox

Ok so introduced my dad to thunderbird now that i'm pulling him away from AOL and he's freaked out because someone can open it up click on inbox and see his mail that's previously been downloaded, but he may want to keep.

SO, after some searching with no luck

How can one password protect their profiles/inbox on thunderbird so that this can't happen without knowing the password?

This is not for logging in to access your new mail, he already has to enter in those passwords, however what i think he wants is to automatically log him in and receive his mail but not be able to view the mail unless you enter a correct password when attempting to enter your inbox/profile

This is for POP and IMAP emails

Depending on whether your dad knows how to run Thunderbird in Safe Mode without extensions (if he does this is useless really ), you can use ProfilePassword.

Edit: hmm actually just read it properly and i see this would be no use at all anyway

Try reading this.

I read that thing prior to posting TBH i probably will just install that profile password because he knows little and i cba with his email and if he thinks it's good for him well then it is cough placebo effect cough

It's odd you'd really think it would be part of the actual program itself

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Originally posted by aNILEator
It's odd you'd really think it would be part of the actual program itself

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Not really, you can already put a password on your windows account, just log-off or lock the computer when you leave...

Outlook & Outlook Express also don't have this feature.

Also if you think about it, the mails are stored on your HDD in plain text, so if you browse for the files directly you can open them anyway...

EDIT: You can also use PGP to send/receive encrypted email, these will stay encrypted, so when you want to read them you have to give your pgp userpass.