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Sunday, July 30, 2006 So the other day Thunderbird starting performing a new trick. Every time I logged in to check mail, it would re-challenge me to authenticate several times in a row as if I'd given an invalid password. As is my habit, I sent a message to a mailing list seeking help, only to be mildly embarrassed later on when I found out this was my own fault -- and after I had publicly chastised T-Bird for this new behavior.

As someone on the list pointed out, this will happen if you configure your IMAP client to check multiple folders for new mail. I had done exactly that. I set T-Bird to check my Spam folder, and a couple of my other folders for new mail when it did a mail check. Once I undid that, the behavior went away.

So now I know, and so do you. And you didn't even have to publicly embarrass yourself to find out. You're welcome.


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