24920 - Mailnews to use single-signon to remember passwords

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 18565

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

Description

[Stephen P. Morse]

This bug actually incorporates two existing bug reports -- 8213 & 21781.  But 
neither of those reports explicitly mentions using single signon (8213 talks 
about option to remember password and 21781 talks about use of a checkbox to 
specify that password should be remembered).

Am opening this bug explicitly as a request for the use of single-signon so that 
it can be tracked for beta1.  Changes to mailnews code are minor and have 
already been given to the mailnews team.

Comment 1

[Stephen P. Morse]

Oops, I just realized that I'm supposed to be adding the [beta1] notation to the 
keywords field and not the summary line.  Correcting this.

Comment 2

[Phil Peterson]

We already have a bug for this. To your point about whether we should do this
for B1, I think we should wait for B2 because:

1. We have a ton of B1 bugs to fix, and performance problems to improve.
According to the B1 criteria, both performance and stability are more important
than features.
2. Since we already have "remember password" functionality in mail, there isn't
much user benefit to replacing one implementation with another for B1.

I totally believe in single sign on, and agree that mail should integrate with
it, but we just have bigger fish to fry for B1.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18565 ***

Comment 3

[lchiang]

verified as duplicate