158946 - After successful login, server failure keeps asking for password

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 91656

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Keith Hankin]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020722
BuildID:    2002072208

Mozilla mail does not distinguish first-time login failures from server failures
after first-time login.  The latter scenario should not ask for
username/password again, because it probably hasn't changed... instead the
server is having temporary problems and it should just be retried again.  When
my mail server has problems, it is very annoying to constantly get a popup
asking for my password (which has been cleared out in the dialog).  I have to
keep typing it over and over until the mail server comes back up.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Read mail.
2.Shut down mail server.
3.You will get prompted to login again... it should just keep trying to contact
the server instead.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Mozilla should not try it again with the same password because some Mail servers
will close your Accountt after x login Errors.
(and the password can really be changed)

But Mozilla should not delete the password for random errors, only if you get a
invalid username/password answer from the server


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 91656 ***