284147 - mail sent initiated from command line does not get saved in Sent folder

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Jason Keltz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050228 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050228 Firefox/1.0.1

If I send a message initiated from the command prompt on my Linux system using
Thunderbird, the message gets sent, but Thunderbird is unable to store the
message in the "Sent" folder because it never prompts me for a password for the
IMAP account, and can therefore not login. The password on the IMAP account is
NOT saved.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. erase .thunderbird directory
2. start thunderbird
3. enter account info for IMAP connection
4. Thunderbird prompts for account password and when it is entered (and not
saved), it displays the e-mail in the account. Sending a message at this point
works fine, and it gets appended to the Sent folder.
5. exit thunderbird
6. attempt to call thunderbird from the command prompt to send mail:
thunderbird -compose "to=[e-mail]"
7. thunderbird starts up and lets me compose the message.
8. when I click "Send", it says "Sending login information..." and then a short
while later -- "Login to server <my imap server> failed.".

It does send the message because doing that does not require a password, but it
is unable to save a copy to my "Sent" folder because it never even prompted for
the password, and thus could not login.

Just to prove that I did not save the password, I start up thunderbird again
manually. The gui comes up, it asks for a password, it logs me in. If I send a
message at this point, it does get send and does get appended to the Sent folder.

If I "save" the password, I can compose from the command line without any
problems. If I do not save the password, I cannot. This sounds like a bug - as
if the system thinks the password is saved when it is not.

Actual Results:  
Thunderbird sends the message, but does not append a copy to the Sent folder.

Expected Results:  
append a copy to the send folder.

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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