13335 - Problems with pref migration for mail

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Profile Migration, defect, P1)

Description

[Phil Peterson]

[e-mail] writes:

Here are what my prefs say after they were imported:

     user_pref("mail.server.server1.password", "");
     user_pref("mail.server.server1.remember_password", true);

Notice that the password field is blank. This is probably why authentication
failed. There are
numerous dogfood issues here:

1. Prefs not imported properly (i.e. password since I save this in my 4.6 prefs)

Comment 1

[Phil Peterson]

Added dependency on dogfood bug

Comment 2

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

we can't decode 4.x passwords.

what you should be seeing is this:
migrate
start up mail
authentication fails, so you get the password dialog once
enter your new password.
since you have remember_password set to true, it should write it out to your
prefs.fs.  (note, it will be written to your prefs.js in clear text.)
from then on, authentication will not fail.

chriss:  is that what you are seeing?

until we solve the problem of decoding 4.x passwords, this is how its going to
work.

adding mscott to the cc list.

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

Chris, we'll never be able to migrate your 4.5 password in mozilla. We don't
have access to the security unmunge code that was used to munge the password
before storing in prefs.

If you ran with yesterdays build (9/8) password dialogs were broken. They are
fixed again today.

As Seth said, the first time you run, when you try to get new mail, you'll get a
password dialog asking for your pop or imap password. if remember_password is
set to true, we'll remember it and you'll never see the dialog again.

I'm pretty sure there isn't a bug here as remember password works fine for me.
This is assuming this bug was filed using yesterdays build when the password
dialog was broken.

Comment 4

[chriss]

I was running yesterday's build and never saw the password dialog as expected.
I am now running today's build but am having problems getting mail up so I can't
tell if the password dialog appears. I'll keep digging and file another bug if
necessary.

Comment 5

[Scott MacGregor]

Hey Chris, any problems in particular we can help you with? Todays build has
actually been behaving pretty good for me today.

Comment 6

[chriss]

Seth got me running by copying my 4.7 prefs directly into my seamonkey profile.

This did the trick and got me running. But there is still a problem with pref
migration. I'll try tomorrow's build (deleting my profile first) and see what
happens.

Comment 7

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

chriss:  don't copy your prefs.js anymore.

use -installer.

-installer and pref migration is working much better now.  marking fixed.

Comment 8

[Grace Bush]

this is working on unix and win-
verified on builds 1999091608