380787 - in mid-article, while typing, Thunderbird suddenly started asking for authentication for news server

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Lawson ENglish]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/419 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 2.0

in mid-article, Thunderbird suddenly started asking for authentication for news server. I was typing message and authentication dialog appeared. I checked with ISP and not only do they not have any problems, but they don't request authentication. I supplied it anyway and received an authentication error. I can't read or write to newsgroups. I've installed latest version of Thunderrbird. Tried to delete anya/all related files.  Restarted computer. Etc Etc. Etc.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click on news server name
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
authentication request

Expected Results:  
no such animal required. I have the option to request authentication checked off and the server has neverasked for it. This happend in the middle of typing a sentence after being online for several hours, typing many sentences in newsgroup articles including the newsgroup I was replying to at the moment bug appeared.

Thunderbird should not be asking for authentication when 1) the server doesn't ask for it and 2) when authentication required option isn't set anyway.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

what news server?
did this ever heppen using version 1.5?

Comment 2

[Melchert Fruitema]

Without additional information on this problem further analysis of the reported event is not feasible.

Comment 3

[Melchert Fruitema]

The only possibility that I can imagine is:

submitter must have had a mail or news account setup for which the account server request an authentication in order to refresh the messages list. 

The authentication required option setting is not an precondition per sé (negociated at connect time). The server may send the request for authentication, anyway. Whether Thunderbird conditionally (looking at the user setting) needs to respond to that request by prompting the user, is to be examined further.

Comment 4

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

wsmwk asked a question in 2007-09-12; in the intervening 9 months, no one answered -> RESO INCO