Email Logins are Not Saved When Profile is Moved/Copied to New Computer
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(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)
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(Reporter: steven, Unassigned)
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(Whiteboard: [Support])
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:69.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/69.0
Steps to reproduce:
- Install Thunderbird on different computer.
- Move/copy profile folder to the other computer from a preexisting Thunderbird installation (including editing Profile.ini to reflect the changes).
- Launch Thunderbird on the new computer.
Actual results:
Both my Gmail login and IMAP logins are not being saved. Thunderbird is asking for my passwords for both accounts on every start. Gmail has an authentication failure even with the correct password and second factor code. My IMAP accounts work aside from the annoyance of logging in every time.
Expected results:
All of the login information should have been saved in the profile folder. Gmail should see that this is the same profile and allow the login (as if both computers are the same machine). Any passwords or Oauth tokens should be preserved when copied from one machine to another. If this is no longer feasible for technical or security purposes, then a secure backup/copy/transfer solution should be implemented.
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Updated•6 years ago
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Comment 1•6 years ago
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Well, strictly speaking, this sort of profile transfer is not supported. That said, I copy profiles all the time (on Windows) and there's never a problem. This sounds like a support problem. We're also working on a backup solution for a future release.
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