Password protection

109 votes

Set and require a lock-screen password be entered when opening Mailbird (potentially with a timeout feature).

Under consideration Suggested by: Pawel (23 Jan, '20) • Upvoted: 18 Sep

Comments: 4

15 Apr, '20
Evangelos Merged
I work with 50 people at the office.. Many people use mailbird but everybody is looking others mailbird.. It could be safer for many reasons if someone wants to have a code for his account... And of course for home...
24 Apr, '20
Pawel Admin
"Secure with code mailbird" (suggested by Evangelos on 2020-04-15), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
12 Jul, '20
Dim Merged
Other email clients, such as Thunderbird, allow you to configure a master password to secure the email client. This has two purposes:

1. It prevents unauthorized access to emails if the user's computer is compromised
2. It encrypts the email credentials, preventing hackers from reading them in clear text

Typically, the user is asked for their password once when the user starts the email program, then the client stays "unlocked" until it is closed or manually locked.

This would be an ex
14 Jul, '20
Pawel Admin
"Master Password Support" (suggested by Dim on 2020-07-12), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.