186834 - Removing POP account does not forget password

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Joosep-Georg Järvemaa]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20021226
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20021226

After POP account removal, the remembered POP password remains saved in Password
Manager.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an mail account
2. First time asked for password, check "[ ] Use Password Manager to rememer ..."
3. Remove the account
4. Create new account with same properties
5. Check for new mail

Actual Results:  
No password dialog pops up, the old password will be used.

Expected Results:  
Password dialog pops up, asking for password.

Alternative: (On step 3) after clicking "Remove account" a dialog pops up to
confirm removal. If there are some stored passwords related to this account,
there appears also a check box "[x] Remove stored password(s) as well" (checked
by default).

Comment 1

[John Unruh]

>Password Manager. I suggest marking this wontfix. The password can be manually
deleted, and also protected by the Master Password.

Comment 2

[John Unruh]

Password Manager

Comment 3

[Wesha]

==> NEW. 

It's a really MS- and IE-sounding idea to keep passwords somewhere even after
they're supposed to be gone. Password is an essential property of account, and
should be destroyed along with it. Users may just forget that they're stored
somewhere else, after all.

Increasing severity.

Comment 4

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

Reassigning to new module owner

Comment 5

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

This needs to be over in mail... Password Manager itself has no clue when mail
accounts go away unless Mail tells us. Probably true for Thunderbird as well,
but thats just guessing.

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

xref bug 128744.