57912 - don't show the wrong username in the account settings dialog.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect, P3)

Description

[Frank Belew]

My login name is frb, my news server account name is fbelew, I can't set this
since mailnews ASSUMES it is frb. Therefor I have no news access in mozilla.


Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001022

Comment 1

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are you basing this off the prefs you see in the prefs.js file?

we use the password manager for both the news username and password.

do you get the dialogs for username & password?

Comment 2

[Frank Belew]

> are you basing this off the prefs you see in the prefs.js file?
I'm basing it off the prefs panel that I see after adding an account

> we use the password manager for both the news username and password.
> do you get the dialogs for username & password?
Yes, but it was very very misleading to see the prefs panel say Username: frb
when it will really ask later

Comment 3

[Frank Belew]

Changing summary for clarity

Comment 4

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

accepting.  since we use the password manager to keep track of the username, we
should not show the account's username (from the prefs) in the ui.

it is confusing.  part of the problem is that we are setting the username on the
account for news, and we don't need to.  (this is a know bug.)

adding nbaca to the cc list.

Comment 5

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adding andrew to the cc list.

Comment 6

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fix in hand.

Comment 7

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the fix is to hide the username stuff when viewing a news server.

Comment 8

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fixed.

now the username is not show for news servers.  

when I fix #14295, a user  will be allowed to change usernames for imap and
pop.  but what about news usernames?

there isn't always a single username for a news server, it can be different per
group on a given server.

there is an outstanding issue to add some ui to allow users to "forget"
passwords from the account manager, instead of having to go into the password
  manager.  when we add that ui, it will say "forget username and password" for
news.  that will allow a user to change the username, since they will have to
enter it again the next time they do anything.

I'll log a new bug to track that issue.

Comment 9

[Ninoschka Baca]

Build 2000-12-28-08: NT4, Linux 6.2, Mac 9.04
Verified Fixed, selecting a news server panel no longer displays the Username.