220010 - Thunderbird asks for password when newsserver has closed the connction, even with "save password' checked.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 286628

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Jesse Houwing]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030917 Firebird/0.6.1+ (chocoba65 DOMi/Venkman/AthlonXP SSE)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030917 Firebird/0.6.1+ (chocoba65 DOMi/Venkman/AthlonXP SSE)

While reading through the beta newsgroups for microsoft products (requires
username/password) the newsserver will close an open connectio after a certain
amount of time.

If you then click on a new message after this time, Thunderbird will ask a
user/pass again, eventhough I saved the user/pass the first time round.

clicking the collapse/expand thingy for the newsserver will re-connect. New
messages can be read without problems. The message that asked for a user/pass
because the connection was lost will still ask for a user/pass. Entering the
same as before will allow one to read the message.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Is it same as Bug 214533?
> Mozilla asks for news server authentication information although stored in the
password manager

Or is it similar problem to Bug 160425 of POP3?
> Forgets previously saved password if mail server unavailable

Comment 2

[Ray Booysen]

Reporter, can you please try reproduce this error on a newer build?

Comment 3

[Jesse Houwing]

I'll be able to try after the 24th of october.

Comment 4

[Enno Borgsteede]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Is it same as Bug 214533?
> > Mozilla asks for news server authentication information although stored in the
> password manager

Yes, it's very similar, but unlike 214533 it's not solved, since I still have this type or bug in the Dutch version of Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (20060719). It's always triggered by the news server reporting that I'm using too many connections.

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

This should be fixed in 2.0 alpha and 1.5.0.7 builds

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 286628 ***