268173 - password manager doesn't always store password

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Mr. Moose]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

It seems the password manager is very irregular as to storing the password when
downloading pop3 mail.  Sometimes it remember, sometimes it doesn't.  It seems
to occur more often when dealing with a situation like bug 265215.  Sometime it
will remember a few times in a row, but sometimes not.  The longer I wait, at
least it seems, the more often it forgets. 

I've typed in the password and clicked the "remember password" box.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.check your pop3 mail
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
often asks for the password.

Expected Results:  
expect it to remember the password.

This bug appeared when I upgraded to 0.9 release.  I've installed the nightly
release, but it still happens.

Comment 1

[Mr. Moose]

I've have the amesitution as the previous poster (including showing up 0.9). 
For me, it requests the password every time I start up the mailer.  Once started
up, it stores the password, whether I click "store password" box or not. 
However, periodically, it seems to "lose" the password and ask for it again, but
this usually doesn't occur until the mailer has been up for some time.

I think I'm going to have to go back to 0.8 (again).

Comment 2

[Mr. Moose]

I've have the amesitution as the previous poster (including showing up 0.9). 
For me, it requests the password every time I start up the mailer.  Once started
up, it stores the password, whether I click "store password" box or not. 
However, periodically, it seems to "lose" the password and ask for it again, but
this usually doesn't occur until the mailer has been up for some time.

I think I'm going to have to go back to 0.8 (again).  I'm running win2k, if it
matters.

Comment 3

[Mr. Moose]

I've reinstalled 0.8 and things are working as they should again.  Is there any
idea of what changed between 0.8 and 0.9-1.0?  

Is there a password file that could have been corrupted or be cleaned out to get
it to remember the password?  The reason I mention this is that I can install
0.8 and it works fine.  Install 1.0 and it doesn't work and go back to 0.8 and
all is well.  Ideas?

Comment 4

[Nathaniel Ingersoll]

v1.0 (also present before).
When sending, occasionally loses the password, and won't reacquire it until I
"Cancel" the send (save message to draft), open the draft, "send" it, and
reenter the password - at which point it ALWAYS succeeds, for the time
being..... until sometime later when it loses its mind again.

Comment 5

[Papinutti Luca]

Sending a message in Thunderbird 1.0.2, multi account, Password manager didn't
store password. Stopping send message, adding another smtp server, some times works

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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