Thunderbird: How to change your email password

Change Thunderbird password: Delete saved password

In Mozilla Thunderbird, you must first delete the saved password. To do this, proceed as follows:

• Click on the hamburger menu at the top right and select “Settings”.

Under the heading “Passwords” click on the button “Saved passwords”.
• In the new window, look for the entry for the incoming server (imap) as well as for the outgoing server (smtp) and delete the corresponding entries by clicking on “Remove”.

New password in Thunderbird: The next step

Restart Thunderbird after removing the passwords

• After restarting, you will be prompted to enter a password.
• Enter the new password here and confirm the entry with “OK”.
• Attention: With this method you only change the password stored in Thunderbird and not your password with your e-mail provider. In order for you to receive mails, the new password entered here must correspond to that of your provider.
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