372183 - Thunderbird seems to "forget" passwords when cannot pop an email account

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 121647

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Rémi Caput]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 to 2.0 beta 2

I have an e-mail account that can only be "poped" once every 5 minutes. If I try to pop it again before 5 minutes have passed, I get an error like this:

http://www.yaronet.com/mirari/get.php?c=179m

This is normal, but Thunderbird then asks me a password like if the one I used was wrong, so I have to re-enter it every time I pop my mail two times or more in 5 minutes.

http://www.yaronet.com/mirari/get.php?c=DKQS

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have a pop account that return errors which look like "wrong password" ones
2. Trigger this error
Actual Results:  
Thunderbird asks the password again, even if it was the right one.

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird should not display anything after the first error dialog box. If there is no way to recognize different error reasons, then an account option "never ask me my password in case of error" could be useful.

Comment 1

[esigra]

Duplicate of #339338?