191868 - polling POP3-Account prevents master password to timeout

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Passwords & Permissions, defect)

Description

[Christian Schweer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030129
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030129

I'm using a master password with encryption to protect my saved passwords and
form data and entered a timeout for the master password.

Whenever I have an open MailNews window, which polls my POP3-Account, the master
password never get's a time out. 

It seems to me, that everytime my POP3-Account is polled, the POP3-password is
fetched from the saved passwords, which restarts the timeout.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Setup Mozilla to use encryption for storing passwords etc. and set a timeout
of XX minutes for the masterpassword
2. Setup a pop3-account and enable "check for new messages every..."
3. Open MailNews window and fetch your mails (masterpassword is queried)
4. wait at least XX minutes
5. go to a web-page for which you saved a password or form data

Actual Results:  
The master password is not queried.

Expected Results:  
Ask me to enter the master password

I recognized the effect even, when the master password timeout is shorter than the
check for new mail value...!?

Comment 1

[John Unruh]

This sounds invalid. Once you are logged in to your email account, you are
logged in until you close the browser. Your password is not requested again by
the mail server after the first time you enter your password.
Try deleting your stored email password (Tools>Password manager>Manage stored
passwords), then restart and log in to your email server. I don't believe that
you will be asked for your password every few minutes.

Comment 2

[Christian Schweer]

Your correct. I'm NOT ASKED for my password every few minutes. But:

    That's not what I stated!!

In fact as long as I have an open MailNews-window I'm not asked for any password
at all.

See step 5: go to any web-page (that not my mail-account) for which you have
saved data (password or form data).

Actual Result: the data is filled in 
Expected Result: I'm asked for the master-password and after entering the
correct password the data is filled in

Comment 3

[John Unruh]

Password Manager

Comment 4

[John Unruh]

Password Manager

Comment 5

[Christian Schweer]

Just one more information:

I'm polling an account at pop3.web.de (a freemail-account of
https://freemail.web.de).

Comment 6

[Christian Schweer]

I think I found the cause - but I don't know whether this is a bug or normal
(perhaps this is really INVALID).

I deactivated "Use secure connection (ssl)" (now port 110, with ssl port 995) in
the mail account preferences -> server settings. Now the master password gets
its normal timeout.

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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