486964 - connecting to IMAP accounts, thunderbird does not ask for password

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 485395

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[Erik Holzer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: 1.9.1.3381 - 20090405032409 - pre

on trying to connect to IMAP accounts, thunderbird does not ask the user for password, then sends empty password to the IMAP server, which denies login.
there are NOT ANY passwords stored in manager.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to connect to an IMAP account that has a non-empty password.
Actual Results:  
thunderbird tells that the server has denied login but does not ask me to enter the password at any time.

Expected Results:  
password should be queried from user and sent to server at login.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Does your username contain any special (i.e. non-ascii) characters?

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Does your username contain any special (i.e. non-ascii) characters?

Actually I meant any non-alphabet characters, e.g. '.', '%' etc.

Comment 3

[Erik Holzer]

the username contains a percent-character ("%")
instead of the at-sign ("@"). not uncommon.

i have also seen ampersand ("&") or plus-signs
in email addresses so these will appear in user
names, also, although seldom.

Comment 4

[Erik Holzer]

if i replace the percent (%) to at-sign (@)
in the username, i am still not asked for the password.

Comment 5

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Ok, a % sign means this is the same symptoms/issue as bug 485395.