208468 - On a secure server login is requested in each group and (apparently) not saved

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 36816

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Thomas Tuttle]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

When I login to earthlink's NNTP server (news.earthlink.net), which requires a
username and password, I am forced to re-enter my username and password every
time I add a new group, and it doesn't appear to save them in the Password
Manager (it shows <> [literally, left bracket than right bracket]).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a news server which requires authentication.
2. Subscribe to several groups.
3. Click Get Msgs.
Actual Results:  
Mozilla asks me for the username and password several times.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should only ask once and save it.  If the login doesn't work in a
particular group, it should ask again in case the group has another password.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 36816 ***

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified dup