269405 - Thunderbird discards saved password after login failure

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 160425

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Veronica]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0

Thunderbird discards (deletes) the saved username and password when the POP
authentication fails, possibly also with IMAP. Once a login attempt fails, it
will popup asking for the correct password. When you click Cancel the login
information is discarded. This behavior is undesired IMO, since this might just
be a server-misconfiguration.

Instead, Thunderbird should not discard login information. Once a user clicks
cancel, it should abort the login attempt and move on to other mailaccounts if
applicable. When the user clicks Get Mail again, it should re-try with the saved
password. Thus Thunderbird should never discard the saved login data, only
change it if the user enters a different password in the password popup when
authentication fails.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login to POP3 server, enter password and save the password, Thunderbird will
save password information.
2. Now do another login attempt, make sure the server rejects the password
information, most likely due to a MySQL server which is down.
3. Thunderbird will show a popup window asking for the correct password, click
cancel.
Actual Results:  
Login information is discarded.

Expected Results:  
Keep the login information and abort the login attempt.

Due to a server misconfiguration i lost all my account passwords, quite annoying
since i thought i could always retrieve them via the password manager > Show
passwords.

Comment 1

[Veronica]

I forgot to mention that this occurs with version 0.9. Tested the Windows
version but i guess this applies to all platforms.

Comment 2

[Daniel Wagner]

Yes, this also happens with IMAP accounts.

Comment 3

[Aleksey Nogin]

*** Bug 274412 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Aleksey Nogin]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 160425 ***