{"id":29537,"date":"2020-02-19T12:06:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T10:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/?p=29537"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T09:49:11","slug":"reset-password-thunderbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/email\/reset-password-thunderbird\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change a stored password in Thunderbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When adding a new email account in Thunderbird, you will be prompted for the server password. Thunderbird remembers the password and uses it every time you access your mail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, as the password isn\u2019t stored together with the mail account details, you need to access the <\/span><b>Thunderbird Password Manager<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> if your mail account password is changed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This article guides you to change your mail account\u2019s <strong>stored password<\/strong> \u2013 resetting the password itself needs to be done via the control panel or via your webmail; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/control-panel\/how-to-change-your-email-password\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here\u2019s how<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false,"plain":"<span >When adding a new email account in Thunderbird, you will be prompted for the server password. Thunderbird remembers the password and uses it every time you access your mail.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span >However, as the password isn\u2019t stored together with the mail account details, you need to access the <\/span><b>Thunderbird Password Manager<\/b><span > if your mail account password is changed.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<b>Note: <\/b><span >This article guides you to change your mail account\u2019s <strong>stored password<\/strong> \u2013 resetting the password itself needs to be done via the control panel or via your webmail; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/control-panel\/how-to-change-your-email-password\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span >here\u2019s how<\/span><\/a><span >.<\/span>"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The password isn&#8217;t stored together with the mail account details, so you need to access the Thunderbird Password Manager if your mail password changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lsx_disable_title":"0","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[19122,19125],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-29537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","tag-how-to-change-a-stored-password-in-thunderbird","tag-change-password-in-thunderbird"],"acf":[],"additional_meta":{"category_title":[{"term_id":119,"name":"Email","slug":"email","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":119,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Learn the basics and get going with our easy to set up email guides","parent":0,"count":125,"filter":"raw","term_order":"62","cat_ID":119,"category_count":125,"category_description":"Learn the basics and get going with our easy to set up email guides","cat_name":"Email","category_nicename":"email","category_parent":0}],"tag_title":[{"term_id":19122,"name":"How to change a stored password in Thunderbird","slug":"how-to-change-a-stored-password-in-thunderbird","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":19122,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1763"},{"term_id":19125,"name":"change password in thunderbird","slug":"change-password-in-thunderbird","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":19125,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1764"}]},"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"janine","author_link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/author\/janine\/","author_avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/aa7eb245072caa276e9df6888f1456c90cbf5304bea0210152b08c26141c638e?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29537"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=29537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}