I found that Thunderbird failed to connect to send or receive email and constantly asked for the master password. To fix this, I removed the key3.db and sighons.sqlite files in the profile (within ~\/.thunderbird), restarted Thunderbird, then went into the Edit->Preferences->Security window where I turned off “Use a master password”. Close the form, reopen the same form and turn on “Use a master password” again, and enter the password.<\/p>\n
I found out later that the problem reoccurred but starting thunderbird in safe-mode (thunderbird –safe-mode) and disabling offending add-ons fixes the problem<\/p>\n
Now everything works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I found that Thunderbird failed to connect to send or receive email and constantly asked for the master password. To fix this, I removed the key3.db and sighons.sqlite files in the profile (within ~\/.thunderbird), restarted Thunderbird, then went into the Edit->Preferences->Security window where I turned off “Use a master password”. Close the form, reopen the … Continue reading “Thunderbird won’t work with the master password”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}