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Lock icon on account name

I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird to handle mail for several email accounts, keeping each account's mail in separate folders (personal, work, etc.). Somehow I have changed a setting on one of the accounts (shown in bold in the Folders list at the left side of the screen) so that it now shows a lock icon on it. So far, the only impact that I've noticed is that I can't use the "Move to (folder) again" selection if I right-click on a message; I don't know if anything else will be affected. (I can still move a message by selecting the folder going through the menus.)

Does anyone know what the lock icon represents, and how to turn it off? I didn't see any information in the Mozillazine KnowledgeBase.

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ElrondCT

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OK, maybe I simply didn't notice the lock before. That account is indeed using a secure (SSL) connection (not Gmail; it's a Yahoo-based ISP account), and all the other accounts are using other servers that don't use SSL.

So I guess there's a different reason for the Move To being grayed out. I just tried shutting down Thunderbird and restarting (should have done that before asking a question). The problem has gone away; the option is no longer grayed out. So it looks like a random glitch.

war1

ElrondCT, glad the problem is fixed.