217698 - Password Manager doesn't remember passwords when the login fails

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 160425

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Simon Billingsley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2a (20030813)

When attempting to connect to a mail server (POP3 or IMAP) after a connection
failure (for example because of a network problem), the password manager forgets
the password that was last entered.  I guess this may be a 'feature' so that you
can enter a new one - but overtyping would be good enough.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attempt to log into a mail server (POP3 or IMAP)
2. The server does not respond (i.e. it has failed)
3. Thunderbird asks for the password again, but doesn't suggest the previous one.

Actual Results:  
The 'Mail Server Password Required' dialog does not contain a password even
though the 'Use Password Manager to remember this password' item was previously
clicked.

Expected Results:  
The previous password should be added to the text entry area (as per the
password manager preference).

Comment 1

[Simon Billingsley]

Just tested in latest build:
    Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2a (20030826)

It is still a bug.

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

can someone please dup this bug.

it's in mozilla / mailnews bienvenu probably owns it

Comment 3

[Malte Rücker (mbr)]

I hope it's the right one though it resides in browser / password manager

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 160425 ***