296105 - Request to add passwords to open thunderbird & profiles

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 16489

(Thunderbird :: Security, enhancement)

Description

[Vikas Sharma]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

There seems to be no option for security in TB if many people are using the same
PC (Ex. at home). TB does not ask for passwords to open or even for different
profiles. This makes all my mails accessible to anyone who uses the computer.
This  is equal to the same **** I was using in OE!

Wouldn't it be great to have the opening of TB protected by a password. Better
still if different profiles can have individual passwords then all users can
have a bit of security & happiness.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open TB!
2.
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Expected Results:  
Enable passwords to be asked before logging into any profile.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

profile password is bug 16489

There's also a 'master password' that you can set (see Tools -> Options ->
Privacy -> Password), to prevent people from using your password to send and
retrieve mail, or access the proxy-server.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16489 ***