222927 - Password protection of mail accounts has problems

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[:aceman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)
Build Identifier: Mozilla 1.5final

After logging out of password manager, the mail account is still accessible 
without password.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Mailnews
2.Go into some protected account
3.Give correct password so that you can go in
4.Use password manager->logout
5.go into some folder in the same account
6.Master password is requested again
7.Press cancel
8.The contents of the folder is displayed.
9.When moving to other folders, the password is always requested, but it can be 
cancelled and the action is allowed.
Actual Results:  
You can access the folder data without password.

Expected Results:  
Abort and show blank folders in the account the same as the first time after 
starting MailNews.

Comment 1

[:aceman]

The steps are a bit incorrect. The whole feature has flaws. At least 2 accounts 
are required.

1. Open mailnews.
2. Go into some account (I'll call it Account A).
3. Master password is requested. Give it.
4. Password for the POP3 server is requested. (Why??? - if this is intended, I 
don't like it, I will have to turn the feature off :( It disables the purpose 
of password manager)
5. Go into another account (Account B) - no password is needed.
6. Download mail for all accounts - notice that mail for account B is NOT 
checked.
7. Use tools->password manager->logout
8. Go into A - master password is requested. Don't give it, press cancel.
9. The content of the wished folder is shown!
10. Go into B - no password is requested and the folder contents are shown!

Comment 2

[:aceman]

I turned the feature off. Now it created duplicate entries for the POP3 servers
in the password file. One with mailbox://, the other with xmailbox:// ...

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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