Second Network Calendar does not ask for password. Password change not obvious.
Categories
(Calendar :: Provider: CalDAV, defect)
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(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: wf, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:76.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/76.0
Steps to reproduce:
We tried to create two calendars for me and my wife and according to the comments in https://kaffeeringe.de/2018/01/03/nextcloud-und-thunderbird-perfekt-verbinden/ we were warned that this migh not work.
Actual results:
The first connection showed an error message something like "connection does not work" but did not offer an option to fix like changing the password. We did not find a way to change the password.
Adding the second calendar we were not asked for a password. Only removing and recreating will ask for a password. It was also not possible to remove the last calendar so we had to add a dummy local calendar for just that.
Expected results:
the natural way would have been to:
- be able to delete any calendar no matter whether none is left
- change the password intuively by using the settings
- be able to click the warning triangle to fix e.g. the password problem
It's astonishing that such a "natural" way of doing things is not supported but the awkward way of doing things or not supporting features is currently the norm.
Our version is 6.2.9.1 which is not available in the bugzilla dropdown list. You might want to change to a better issue tracking system that is simpler to use.
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Comment 1•4 years ago
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You can't even change the url. The password behavior is horrible. You might or might not be asked for the password on restarting Thunderbird. There is no debuging or logging option. What a mess...
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Comment 2•4 years ago
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Looking into the details it shows that neither Thunderbird not Lighning did a proper update of itself. We had to redo the Thunderbird updates many times before reaching Version 68.8.0 and haveing Lightning also be 68.8.0 - we'll now check the calendar behavior and comment again.
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Comment 4•4 years ago
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The problem persist. A difference is that we have to specify username/address in the settings.
It's still not possible to change url or password.
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Updated•4 years ago
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Comment 5•4 years ago
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workaround |
You can change the password in Thunderbirds password manager. After activating show passwords, you can change it.
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Comment 6•4 years ago
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Thanks for the work around. I think its important to be able to change url and password at the naturally expected spot right where the problem of a non working connection is reported. The report should include the reason for the failure e.g. network time out, password problem and optionally allow to set debug options and see the log. At this point the whole functionality is almost unuseable in settings that need this kind of debugging which will happen more often than not given my experience with e.g. nextcloud on Mac OS X from the past few years.
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Comment 7•4 years ago
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The message is "the calendar is not available".
Comment 8•2 years ago
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Adding the second calendar we were not asked for a password. Only removing and recreating will ask for a password.
Wolfgang, are you still seeing this problem when using newre versions?
Update issues were inherent in Lightning/Calendar being an add-on. Thankfully those does are behind us, and update issues should be gone.
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Comment 9•2 years ago
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In the meantime the dialogs for calendare addition appear:
In German:
- "Neuen Kalender erstellen" - im Netzwerk
- "Neuen Kalender erstellen" - Benutzername, Adresse
- "Authentifizierung erforderlich - Mozilla Thunderbird
- "Neuen Kalender erstellen - Bitte die zu abbonierenden Kalender auswählen - Abbonnieren
This all works but the result seems to have no effect - after selecting two calendars no calendar seems to appear
There is no further message - e.g. no error or success message.
Things seem to improve but still are not at a useable point as of Thunderbird 102.6.1 - what a pitty!
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