305257 - TB will not remember password after server goes offline

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 423354

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[David Walker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050808 Firefox/1.0.6 (Ubuntu package 1.0.6)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050808 Firefox/1.0.6 (1.0.6)

The initial setup of an account, when prompted for a password and remember is
clicked thunderbird will remember the password.  If said mail server goes
offline and thunderbird attempts to connect, it fails and asks for a password. 
When said server comes back online, and I try connecting with thunderbird with
the remember option set, thunderbird will not remember the valid password.  It
keeps prompting on each connect.  The only solution I have found is to `rm -fR
~/.thunderbird`

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create new account
2. Login to server, remember password.
3. Disconnect from network
4. Re-connect to mail server, knowing you have no connection
5. Wait for TB to ask for your password.
6. Close TB, plug back into the network.
7. Attempt to re-connect to mail server, when prompted enter password and check
remember
8. Close and re-open TB, watch as it asks for your password

Actual Results:  
I am prompted each login after a login attempt to mail server fails.

Expected Results:  
Clicking remember this password should remember the password

Comment 1

[David Walker]

I am not sure, what if any security problems exist here.  I have not yet read
through the code where this seems to be an issue.

Comment 2

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of bug 269405 -> Suite bug 160425 and/or bug 224032?

Comment 3

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Bug 423354 has better information as to the problems. And more comments. And more attention.