340950 - MailNews doesn't remember password on server failure

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 286628

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060605 SeaMonkey/1.5a
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060605 SeaMonkey/1.5a

When mail server doesn't work (connection issue for example), MailNews component (and maybe Thunderbird) doesn't remember the password, asking the user to set it once more. Once connectivity is back, and user give the password, no more disturb.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure a mail account.
2. Connect to your account, and check "remember this password".
3. Disconnect from the Internet, try to retrieve your mails.
4. Replug Internet, and retrieve your mails.
Actual Results:  
You have to give your password once more.

Expected Results:  
MailNews should be able to notice the server has got connectivity issue and he shouldn't ask the password once more.

Thunderbird might also be affected.

Comment 1

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

This sounds like yet another manifestation of bug 286628

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 286628 ***