I'm on karmic and just updated Thunderbird to version 3.0.1. It seems everything's fine, it imported all my preferences, mails, addresses and so on, but when i start thunderbird it asks for a master password which i don't have! Is there a way to get rid of this request? Thanks a lot in advance
Help: Thunderbird 3.0.1 keeps asking for "master password"
Archived thread 1400147 from Ubuntuzilla. Markdown source: Ubuntuzilla/thread_1400147_Help_Thunderbird_3.0.1_keeps_asking_for_"mast.md
jobbesat said: I'm on karmic and just updated Thunderbird to version 3.0.1.
It seems everything's fine, it imported all my preferences, mails, addresses and so on, but when i start thunderbird it asks for a master password which i don't have! Is there a way to get rid of this request? Thanks a lot in advance
either it's something that got ported from your previous porfile, or you accidentally set... try starting with a fresh profile.
I fixed the problem myself by deleting the master password, which in my case was also the root password. I do not remember entering it into thunderbird 3, but I did copy my profile over from thunderbird 2, so that may have been the case.
How did you accomplish this? I copied all my settings from my old thunderbird installation, and the new thunderbird keeps asking me for this password. I have tried my root password, my PGP-password, nothing works.
How did you "delete the master password"?
[EDIT] After browsing the preferences in Thunderbird for .. three seconds ... I found the settings I was looking for :) But I still can't disable it, since I don't know what it is! Or why Thunderbird is asking for it!
[EDIT 2] I found a solution! By deleting key3.db in ~/.thunderbird/YOURPROFILE/ the password got reset, or disabled, or something. All is well, I even got PGP working with an update suggested by Thunderbird!