On Fri, 29 May 2015 08:31:49 +0200 Petter Adsen <petter@synth.no> wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2015 09:21:05 -0400 > Frank <debianlist@videotron.ca> wrote: > > > On 05/28/2015 02:44 AM, Emil Payne wrote: > > > On 05/27/2015 10:16 PM, Charlie wrote: > > >> On Wed, 27 May 2015 21:06:10 -0400 Frank sent: > > >> > > >>> When I went into Thunderbird at mid-day one of my accounts with > > >>> my ISP Videotron.ca registered a logon failure..despite the fact > > >>> nothing had changed. > > >> > > >> I have no answer. However, with my ISP I periodically have the > > >> same problem. I attempt to log on with claws-mail, without > > >> changing anything, no update, no upgrade to the system. No > > >> tinkering, nothing at all and of the two accounts one gives me > > >> this error message: > > >> > > > > >> Charlie > > >> > > > That's odd. I have 6 gmail and 8 yahoo accounts. Yesterday all six > > > gmail accounts wanted the passwords reentered. I have thunderbird > > > set to remember passwords. At first I couldn't even get anything > > > to enter into the password box, although the checkbox and buttons > > > worked fine. I restarted my computer and it immediately stopped, > > > saying no keyboard found, even though pushing F1 continued booting > > > and ENTER worked at the grub menu. Once booted in I restarted > > > thunderbird and re-entered the passwords as saved. Everything > > > works fine now. At the time I had put it down to intermittent > > > power outages due to t-storms, but now I wonder. > > > > > > Emil > > > > > > > The logon failure doesn't bother me as much as what the > > security department at my ISP is claiming....that my system and > > that account have been compromised. I can't see how...but that's > > what they claim. > > > > The weird thing is if, while I am on the phone with them they change > > the password for that account, and I enter it into Thunderbird, the > > account works fine...until I close Thunderbird and re-open it. Then > > no password will be accepted by Thunderbird and we are back at > > square one. I'm guessing their system catches the IMAP logon and > > blocks it, because as we know my system is infested with malware > > and viruses. > > > > It's all very frustrating. > > I don't quite see why they have any reason to believe your system is > compromised, unless there is something they aren't telling you (and > that would be irresponsible of them, IMHO). > > Have you tried with another MUA to see if you get the same behaviour? > And/or tried booting from a live disk and run Thunderbird from that? > This could help determine if the problem is with Thunderbird itself, > your configuration, or somewhere else. Oh, and are you using IMAP? If so, try POP3 - or the other way around. Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive."
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