Change your email password in ThunderBird

Accessing Thunderbird

1. Launch the Thunderbird email client on your computer.

Changing the Email Password

Step-by-Step Guide

1. Click on the Menu button (three horizontal lines) at the top right corner of Thunderbird.
2. Select Account Settings from the dropdown menu.
3. In the left pane, choose the email account for which you want to change the password.
4. Under the selected email account, click on Server Settings. This will open the settings for incoming mail (IMAP or POP).
5. Go to the Menu button again and select Options (or Preferences on macOS) > Options (or Preferences again) > Security > Passwords > Saved Passwords.
6. In the Saved Passwords window, click on Show Passwords and confirm.
7. Find the entry for your email account, select it, and click Remove.
8. Close and restart Thunderbird to prompt for the new password.
9. When Thunderbird starts and attempts to fetch mail, it will prompt you to enter the new password. Enter the new password and ensure the Use Password Manager to remember this password option is checked.

Updating SMTP Password

1. In the Account Settings, scroll down to the bottom and click on Outgoing Server (SMTP).
2. Select the SMTP server for your email account and click Edit.
3. Remove the saved SMTP password from the Saved Passwords list.
4. After removing the saved SMTP password, Thunderbird will prompt you for the new password the next time you send an email. Enter the new password and ensure it is remembered.

Additional Tips

• Check with Your Email Provider: If you have trouble changing the password, check the instructions provided by your email service provider, as steps may vary slightly depending on the provider.
• Security: Ensure that your new password is strong and secure, following the recommended guidelines for creating passwords.

Conclusion

Changing your email password in Thunderbird is a crucial step to ensure your email account remains secure after updating your password with your email service provider. By following these steps, you can seamlessly update the password in Thunderbird, ensuring continued access to your emails without interruption.

This tutorial will show you how to change your email password in ThunderBird

Unlike other email clients, there is no direct way to change email passwords in Thunderbird. You have to delete the saved passwords and wait for the password prompt during the next email check.

This demo assumes you’ve already opened ThunderBird.

1) Let’s go to our saved passwords. Click on tools.

2) Click on options.

Make sure you have selected the passwords tab.

3) Click saved passwords.

You will see passwords for both SMTP and POP3/IMAP here. Let’s remove them so we can change them with new passwords

4) You can select a password then click on remove to delete it. But in this case, we need to remove both passwords, so let’s click remove all.

They have been removed! Now restart Thunderbird so the passwords cache will also be removed. When Thunderbird reopens, you will see a password prompt.

5) We got a password prompt! Now type your new password and click on ok.

Please note that we are just changing the password in Thunderbird only. It will not change the actual password of your email account.

You have changed it successfully. This is the end of the tutorial. Now you know how to change your email password in ThunderBird.