Carl Hutzler’s Blog

http://journals.aol.com/godwinbabu/tech/#Entry613

The above plugin for the Thunderbird email client (Windows or Mac or Linux) will let you specify that the client use the SAME password for SMTP as it does for IMAP. This is great for AOL employees as we use SecurID devices which mean that our password changes once per minute.

By using this plugin, the Thunderbird client will just use the IMAP client for the SMTP password. So as long as your IMAP session remains active (and it should if your imap client stays online), you will no longer have to enter your SMTP password to send mail constantly during the day. (if you are working >12 hours….many of us are these days!…you will have to re-auth for IMAP as the timeout for IMAP credentials is set to 12 hours)

And if you need help setting up Thunderbird and are internal, just visit the Wiki