274247 - mail.password_protect_local_cache should allow unlock with master password (if used)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Paul Holbrook]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

if you use the mail.password_protect_local_cache to protect the local cache on
your imap account, you once again have to enter a password for each imap
account, even if you have a master password and you've entered it.

The behavior I would have expected would be for Thunderbird to prompt for the
master password on starting the program (which it does), and then if you enter
it correctly, for it to show you the locally cached messages.  But instead it
prompts you again for the mail server passwords, even though you've unlocked
them with your master password.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. set mail.password_protect_local_cache to true in your user.js
2. save your imap password with the password manager
3. set a master password
4. restart thunderbird: you will be prompted for your master password, and then
prompted again for the imap password

Actual Results:  
na

Expected Results:  
described in 'details'

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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