1759865 - Provoking password request when minimized prevents main window repaint

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Nicholas Prado]

Attachment: zip of screenshot and troubleshooting information text

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:98.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/98.0

Steps to reproduce:

Steps :
. start thunderbird, provide account password to receive emails
. create a new message, fill to address
. minimize main thunderbird window
. send email
. unminimize main thunderbird window

Mitigation 1:
. switch to new message
. cancel sending
. switch to main window
. press escape

Mitigation 2:
. paste password
. press enter

Actual results:

Normal mode:
Main window is black. Requesting that thunderbird close by right clicking on its icon in the taskbar and choosing 'close window' has no effect. Main window ignores mouse interactions to minimize.

Performing steps of mitigation 1 cancels sending and the main window paints itself.

Performing steps of mitigation 2 sends the message and the main window paints itself.

Troubleshooting mode:
Main window paints itself, but does not show the input-password-to-send dialog, ignores interactions.
Mitigation steps allow interaction again

Expected results:

Normal Mode:
Main window paints itself as it unminimizes; presents input-password-to-send dialog.

Troubleshooting mode:
Main window presents input-password-to-send dialog.

Comment 1

[Nicholas Prado]

I assume that the modality of the input-password dialog has some impact on repainting the main frame as it unminimizes. It is interesting that this does not affect the troubleshoot mode main frame.

I have dealt with this issue for somewhere between one and ten months, I have forgotten for how long. I do not deal with this problem with another thunderbird instance where I have allowed thunderbird to encrypt my account passwords with a primary password.

It would be nice (and presumably avoid this repaint issue) if thunderbird didn't ask for my password again. Are there accounts that have one password for receiving email and another for sending ?