171538 - SMTP authentication keeps retrying when password on server changed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 155172

(MailNews Core :: Networking: SMTP, defect)

Description

[Rick Nyman]

Scenario - password was changed on remote mail server (from a different
computer).  Authenticated SMTP mail send was attempted from this computer
(without changing the password stored in Mozilla).  Mozilla kept attempting to
authenticate (and did not give an option to change the password).  Session
capture attached below.

Unchecking and rechecking the Use Username and Password did not clear the problem.

Clearing the password under managed stored password did clear the problem and
allow Mozilla to ask for the new password.

This is my first bug report, hope I did it right.

-Rick...

220 mailshell.com ESMTP
EHLO afterburner.net
250-mailshell.com
250-AUTH LOGIN CRAM-MD5 PLAIN
250-AUTH=LOGIN CRAM-MD5 PLAIN
250-PIPELINING
250 8BITMIME
AUTH PLAIN AHJueW1hbkBhZnRlcmJ1cm5lci5uZXQAYWZ0ZXJidXJuM3I=
535 authorization failed (#5.7.0)
AUTH PLAIN AHJueW1hbkBhZnRlcmJ1cm5lci5uZXQAYWZ0ZXJidXJuM3I=
535 authorization failed (#5.7.0)
AUTH PLAIN AHJueW1hbkBhZnRlcmJ1cm5lci5uZXQAYWZ0ZXJidXJuM3I=

Comment 1

[Miha Psenica]

I have the same problem. I have changed the SMTP password on the server and now
I can not change it in Mozilla. I can not even cancel the username since it
somehow gets remembered b Mozilla even if the setting is unchecked.

I am using 1.2b on Win98 but this used to be the problem since 1.1a and maybe
even before that.

Comment 2

[Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek]

Isn't this dup of Bug 155172 ?

Comment 3

[Russell Odom]

Yes.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155172 ***