301578 - If your LDAP server requires authentication, you must authenticate every time you compose a message

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 151447

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[norm.grant]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2(2050317)

Our LDAP server requires that users BIND before searching.  When I set
Thunderbird up to use LDAP server, everything works, except that I must enter my
LDAP password  EVERY time I compose a message.  Thus, my password is going
across the network frequently.  I have never even been offered the opportunity
to have Thunderbird remember the password, which I prefer not to do, anyway.

And, due to the problems Thunderbird has with SSL to LDAP (reported by others),
it isn't even encrypted.  This is both annoying, and a security problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure Thunderbird to use and bind to LDAP
2. Compose one message
3. When message is completed, compose another one.

Actual Results:  
The password entered in step 2 was requested again in step 3.

Expected Results:  
It should have remembered the password until I either switched identities or
exited Thunderbird.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Duplicate of bug 151447