291346 - After migrating from Seamonkey or Outlook / Outlook Express NO Passwords will be saved

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Alex Ihrig [:Thunderbird_Mail_DE]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0.2

After migrating from Seamonkey or Outlook / Outlook Express NO Passwords will be
saved.

This problem occurs in the following cases:
1) In Outlook / Outlook Express was defined to NOT remember passwords
2) In Mozilla Suite was defined to NOT remember passwords (which was often
intended to not save passwords in the browser - not mail)

Thunderbird users are not beware of this pref after migration. It is a real
problem because of no existing UI to see or change this pref in Thunderbird!

user_pref("signon.rememberSignons", false);

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
We should have a pref UI to this pref (which is exising in Firefox).

Comment 1

[Alexander Gerescher]

More details:
This bug occurs if you have to enter your password, and want to 
check the option to save the password. Normally there is a checkbox to
make thunderbird remember your password. If you migrated from seamonkey
(other programms) the pref mentioned is set. So there is no checkbox
to make thunderbird remember your password. Very annoying for users
with no idea about internal prefs.

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

even better, why migrate that pref setting at all? Maybe we should just not
migrate it? 

Comment 3

[Alex Ihrig [:Thunderbird_Mail_DE]]

A related question:

How is it possible to define which passwords have not to be saved in
Thunderbirds password manager?

In Thunderbird 1.0.x:
Tools > Options... > advanced > passwords > button "passwords..." > 2nd tab
"passwords never saved"

Is this tab necessary in Thunderbird?

Comment 4

[Alex Ihrig [:Thunderbird_Mail_DE]]

If there is NO way to set the option in Thunderbird itself, it would be
sufficient to not migrate the pref.

Comment 5

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: the fix, don't migrate the setting

Comment 6

[Alex Ihrig [:Thunderbird_Mail_DE]]

Don't we migrate the setting from any application now?