219200 - Ability to set SMTP and IMAP or POP password as the same when in the same domain

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, enhancement)

Description

[u63580]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827

I use my work SMTP server to send e-mail where-ever I connect to the internet. 
That means I supply a username / password to send my mail - which I don't want
to save as it is also my network login password.

So, when I open up Mail, I supply my password for our IMAP server, then have to
supply it again when I send mail.  It would be nice if I could tell Mozilla that
the two have the same password as they are in the same domain:

smtp.soton.ac.uk and
imap.soton.ac.uk

Would it be possible to have an option "Use same password for each machine in
same domain", or something like that?




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

taking. We were thinking of doing this if the host name was exactly the same,
but that wouldn't help you...We'll probably make this controlled by a pref
that's initially turned off

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

Here's what I'm currently thinking:

We have two global prefs:
 smtp.usePasswordFromIdenticalHost, smtp.usePasswordFromSameDomain
and a per smtp server pref, smtp.server.serverx.usePasswordFromAccount
where the account value would be account key.

usePasswordFromIdenticalHost would interate over the incoming servers for one
with the same host name, and if it had a password use it.
UsePasswordFromSameDomain would iterate over the incoming servers for one with
the same domain name (everything after the first '.', so smtp.foo.com would
match mail.foo.com)

The Per server pref would look for the account with the same account key and use
the password stored in the server, if any.

Comment 3

[u63580]

Sounds pretty much spot on.  Thanks

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

fixed on trunk

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

*** Bug 93452 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[David :Bienvenu]

Here are the exact prefs:

+// if true, we'll use the password from an incoming server with
+// matching username and domain
+user_pref("mail.smtp.useMatchingDomainServer", false);
+
+// if true, we'll use the password from an incoming server with
+// matching username and host name
+user_pref("mail.smtp.useMatchingHostNameServer", false);

mail.smtpserver.smtp1.incomingAccount, "server1"); where server1 is the incoming
account you want to match (pop3 or imap)

Comment 8

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: replace user_pref with pref

Scott pointed out that I used user_pref instead of pref - this fixes that.