225526 - Mail prompts for password after switch profile

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: SMTP, defect)

Description

[Brendt Hess]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925

Currently, two different people are using this instance of Moz1.5 with different
mail accounts through the same provider.  If we use the Tools/Switch Profile
menu option to pull up profile manager and change to the other person's account,
then try to send a mail, we are prompted twice for the correct mail server password.

If we close Moz, then re-open and select the proper profile, everything works
just fine.  This behavior is new with V1.5 (at least we had not seen it before).

NOTE:  This appears to happen only when the first profile account has sent mail
out before switching.  Could be that this only occurs after an upgrade from 1.4
to 1.5? (or 1.5b to 1.5?)  In any case, it is an annoyer that will hinder
acceptance if it happens a lot.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up two Comcast mail accounts
2. Load Moz with profile #1, and work in mailnews.  Send at least one mail
3. Switch to profile #2
4. Try to send mail
Actual Results:  
Mail server password prompt box appears twice for the outgoing mail

Expected Results:  
Mail sent.

Comment 1

[Christian Eyrich]

I can confirm this on Windows with 20031024 in one direction (Profile 2 has
influence on Profile 1 but not vice versa). Unfortunatelly I can't reproduce it
on Linux (and therefore not debug).

Comment 2

[G Kais]

I have noticed this on Mozilla 1.5 release version running on Win2k.
Now I have just installed (Mozilla 1.6b --> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
5.0; en-GB; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208). All stands as reported previously PLUS the
following. 
As well as loosing the SMTP password the address book doesn't change to the 2nd
Profiles address book. 
My opinion is that if there are other sections that needs to changes from 1st
profile to 2nd would not change.
This is reproducible for both Mozilla 1.5 and 1.6b.
--G Kais 20031231--

Comment 3

[Brendt Hess]

Confirming that this still exists in V1.6

Comment 4

[Gregory Russell]

Confirming that this bug still exists in v. 1.7.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

do you still see this problem?

Comment 6

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 7

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Christian writes: "On TB it doesn't show at least since it has to be shut down for switching profiles and when shut down that bug never happened. ...guess you can close the bug savely, it's quite old and has no dupes."

=> WFM per Christian