Change Mozilla Mail password / Change SeaMonkey Mail password
When you first add an email account to Mozilla Mail or SeaMonkey Mail, you will just enter your basic information like email address, incoming mail server and outgoing mail server. The password will be entered only the first time you are trying to send or receive email messages from within Mozilla Mail / SeaMonkey Mail, as shown on the screenshot below. But if you tell the email program to remember your password, and later change that password with your email provider, you may find it difficult to see where you can change the stored password for that particular email account.
How do I change my Mozilla Mail / SeaMonkey Mail password?
Follow these steps to change the stored password for one of your email accounts: (if you arrived on this tutorial looking for Thunderbird, see how you can change your Thunderbird password)
- First, start by opening Mozilla Mail / SeaMonkey Mail; depending on your settings, it may be configured to automatically check for new email messages on the server. If this is the case, and if you have already changed your email password with your provider, you will either get an error message, or get a dialog that asks you to re-enter your password. If you get such a dialog, you are in luck and are already done changing your email account password! Otherwise, read the rest of this tutorial.
- If you get some kind of invalid password error message, just dismiss it. Then, click on the "Edit" menu, and choose "Preferences", and the "Preferences" window will open.
- Select the "Privacy & Security" section on the left hand side; then click on "Passwords":
- Now click on the "Manage Stored Passwords" button. When the "Password Manager" opens, the "Passwords Saved" tab should be automatically selected.
- To delete all stored passwords, click on the "Remove All" button; otherwise, select the email account whose password you want to change, and click "Remove". Once you are done, click on the "Close" button, and "OK" in the Preferences dialog you came from.
- Mozilla Mail / SeaMonkey Mail has now deleted the password stored for that particular email account, which allows you to change it: the next time you try to send or receive emails for that account, and you get asked to supply the password, enter your new password and make the email client remember it (by checking the checkbox you'll see below the password field).
And this is how you indirectly change the stored password for your email account in Mozilla Mail and SeaMonkey Mail. To learn more about this internet suite / email program software package, be sure to visit our free SeaMonkey Mail Tutorial / Mozilla Mail Tutorial (combined into one convenient location).
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