274412 - stored password gets removed when mail server has temporary problems

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 269405

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Florian Effenberger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0

A stored password gets removed when mail server has temporary problems. This
especially bad for corporate environments, where (as an example) the secretary
has to wait for the IT admin to re-enter the password.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Store username and password.
2. Fetch messages.
3. POP3 server is overload and refuses connection ("-ERR maintenance mode" or
something like that).

Actual Results:  
Asked for password next time I connect.

Expected Results:  
Stored password should be used as again.

I consider this a major problem. See above explanation.

Comment 1

[Florian Effenberger]

Compare Bug# 254486

Comment 2

[Jeff Morris]

I do not have privileges to CONFIRM, or I would, because I reproduced this same
behavior on Thunderbird 1.0.2 (just released).  Definitely is a problem for me,
since I too am using a work email in Thunderbird.  Very important to fix this
quickly for corporate users.  We don't want to drive them away.

Comment 3

[JonMuller]

Experiencing a similar problem. 
Thunderbird doesn't remember the passwords for 3 accounts - use Thunderbird for
5 accounts. Thunderbird forgets the passwords for the previous 3 accounts used.
Tick box to remember passwords.
I have a periodic slow connection to the mail server, this seems to force 

Comment 4

[Aleksey Nogin]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 269405 ***