381399 - Thunderbird - Master Password

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 16489

(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)

Description

[Manoj babu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
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hi
 i have a issue while opening a Thunderbird, if i set master password i have open my mailclient, otherwise it shouldn't now it is opening if click cancel button for 5-6 times.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
If i set master password to open mail client, it should validate and check the password and then only it should open my mail client.

Expected Results:  
If i set master password to open mail client, it should validate and check the password and then only it should open my mail client.

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

The Master Password protects your passwords, used to log on to the mail servers. It does not protect files in your windows folder including your locally saved mail, that's what the windows login password and access controls are for.

Comment 2

[Manoj babu]

ok fine


(In reply to comment #1)
> The Master Password protects your passwords, used to log on to the mail
> servers. It does not protect files in your windows folder including your
> locally saved mail, that's what the windows login password and access controls
> are for.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 16489 ***
>