445799 - Multiple password prompts appear for account

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 423354

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Susurrus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1a1pre) Gecko/2008071602 Minefield/3.1a1pre
Build Identifier: version 3.0a2pre (2008071603)

I have a Gmail account setup for IMAP access. It's set to check automatically every 15 minutes for new mail. Seems like the connection doesn't always work right, because I'm prompted for my password sometimes when Shredder goes to check for new mail, but that's a separate issue.

This issue is because Shredder has no problem opening multiple password prompts for the same email account. I awoke this morning to find about 20 password prompts open for just my one Gmail account.

I would think that the password prompts would be designed so that only one could appear per account at a time. Opening 20 did not improve the situation. I'm also not sure what would have happened if I had entered my password for any of them. I ended up canceling all of them and when another single new one appeared, entered my password there.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
Not sure how I would reproduce this. Seems like it's just a problem with Gmail and Shredder on my computer.

Comment 2

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Sorry, wrong bug.