59550 - Mail password not being saved

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 64138

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect, P1)

Description

[Ari Pollak]

I'm using an IMAP account for my mail, and my password isn't being saved. When a
box comes up to ask for a password, I click the box that says Password Manager
should save it, but next Mozilla session it brings up the password box again.

Comment 1

[Ari Pollak]

Attachment: Log file (log level 5) of my IMAP session as per sspitzer's suggestion

Comment 2

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

updating summary.

do you have anything in the "Passwords Never Saved"?

Comment 3

[Ari Pollak]

no.

Comment 4

[Andreas Buschka]

This happens on my machine, too (today's night build Linux). Also it does not
save POP3 passwords. Clearing all passwords does not help.

Comment 5

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

I'm not seeing this.  

1) do any of your passwords get saved?  (try going to an ftp:// or http:// that
requires a username & password.  are they getting saved?

2) can you create a new profile, and try it with that profile?

I wonder if we are failing to write to your ~/.mozilla directory.  can you do an
"strace -f ./mozilla" and see if we fail when trying to write?

Comment 6

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Seth - I'm seeing this, when you're here, I can show it to you.  Happening on my
12-31-20 build.

Comment 7

[Stephen P. Morse]

What do you see when you open the password-manager dialog?
  tasks->privacy->password-manager->view saved passwords

Comment 8

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Steve - I see all of my web entries, but no IMAP.

Comment 9

[Ari Pollak]

that's weird, I'm not seeing this anymore on jan 1st builds on linux. But since
another @netscape is seeing this on a build from 2 days ago, i'll keep it open.

Comment 10

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

I see this too, with a new profile on classic skin.

let me try again.

Comment 11

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

*** Bug 64223 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

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

adding naving to the cc list.

Comment 13

[scottputterman]

I'm seeing this as well on both my new profile and my old profile.  Nominating
and changing priority. I'm using 2000123120 and will download a new build to see
if it's still there.

Comment 14

[scottputterman]

marking nsbeta1+.  I'm still seeing this on 2001010310 Windows NT from this morning.

Comment 15

[Sheela Ravindran]

on win98 and Buildid-2001-01-04-04:  clicking on check box to save password for
pop account and unable to save password for pop accounts too.

cc - esther,ninoschka and myself

Comment 16

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

I'm pretty sure this is on all platforms.

Comment 17

[Håkan Waara]

Changing summary because this occurs on POP as well. We should change the
component from "Networking - IMAP" too, though I'm not sure to what.

Maybe this is all PSM's fault?

Comment 18

[Stephen P. Morse]

It's the checkbox's fault -- checkbox's in commonDialog.xul are no longer 
working correctly.  See bug 64138 for details.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64138 ***

Comment 19

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VERIFIED DUP.