534640 - failure in getting account password for getting or sending mail

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 534589

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Fernando Piera]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091214 Minefield/3.7a1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091214 Shredder/3.1a1pre

When trying to get mail, or sending mail on any account, a message pops up indicacating that a failure in getting the password occured..  No mail in or out possible.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.get mail
2.alert pops up indicating failure in getting password
3. no mzil in
Actual Results:  
no mail in or out is possible as the program seems not able to get the necessary password.

Expected Results:  
getting mail or sending mail, the programs gets the needed passwword for each account and operates the operation requested.

Had to go back to previous version, that of 1212 to return to operate  correctly

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

In Tools -> Options -> Security -> Password could you see the passwords ?