335530 - provide password protection to Thunderbird's UI

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 318697

(Thunderbird :: Security, enhancement)

Description

[greg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)

My first complaint, after using Mullbury, the thunderbird minimized icon is too plain and hard to find. It needs color and contrast. The second complaint is security of others from viewing my emaillistings and cancelling the initail password entering. Mullbury does not let you view listings of emails with no password entering. Nothing comes up unlike Thunderbird.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Minimize Thunderbird
2.Call up Thunderbird
3.

Actual Results:  
Aww forget it.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

for nominal protection of your local folder messages, try setting the pref mail.password_protect_local_cache to true, from tools | options | advanced | general tab, config editor. That requires the user to enter the password for your default account before they can view headers and messages.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Greg, please comment if you are still around.

Morphing summary to one issue - new summary is a stab at what the reporter might be asking for.

Sounds like extension material.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I assume this is invalid, mail.password_protect_local_cache already mentioned in comment 1 already exists. That does the naive protection, and further protection should come from the OS.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

see also bug 231608