Why do I have to enter my master password 3 or more times before it's accepted???

When the Software Security window opens and asks for my master password, I enter the password, but when I submit the form, the password field is cleared and the prompt persists. Sometimes my password is truncated as I'm entering it, and I have to delete whatever is there and start over. Typically, I'll have to enter the password a minimum of 3 times, often more. It's infuriating!

I don't know what might have changed. Thunderbird will prompt for a password if it has failed, and is therefore assumed to have changed, or if more than one password is stored for an account.
Being prompted for the password twice or thrice set me off in search of a solution, and the one I found was this add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/startupmaster/
which consolidated my two or three login prompts into one. It may help you, but the possibility of multiple stored passwords may still be at the root of multiple login prompts.

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