1192414 - The window for entering the master key appears several times

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1180374

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Anton]

Attachment: masterkey.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/44.0.2403.130 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Preconditions: 
1. Set the master key to protect the passwords
2. Enable automatic check mail

Steps:
1. Start application
2. Go drink tea, smoke, etc.

Result: the program will ask for the master key

3. Enter the master key and press the OK


Actual results:

The window for entering the master key appears several times
(because the program tried several times to access the password for checking email)


Expected results:

The program asks for a master key only once regardless of the number of attempts Obtain access to passwords

Comment 1

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Yeah, this does happen in one way or another since time immemorial, although other reports say it's new.

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=multi%2Cmany%20master%20key%2Cpass&list_id=12464567