632827 - Saved Password Erased on Failed NNTP Connection

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 437930

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[David E. Ross]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101123 SeaMonkey/2.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7

Through my ISP, I have a NNTP account at Giganews via a server domain owned by my ISP.  This account requires a login.  I set Thunderbird to save the user ID and password.  

If there is a failure to connect because of a downstream problem (i.e., not something in my PC or Internet connection), Thunderbird deletes the user ID and password.  Furthermore, if I attempt to login and re-enter the ID and password -- checking the boxes to remember them -- they are not saved if the connection problem still exists.  

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[David E. Ross]

After the first failed attempt to connect to the NNTP server, subsequent failed attempts result in an error popup that says: "A new (NNTP) error occurred: Aborted by user"  I did nothing to abort the attempt.

Comment 2

[David E. Ross]

Aarrggh!!

It says: "A news (NNTP) error occurred: Aborted by user"  

The second word should be "news", not "new".

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Looks like we never implemented bug 121647 for newsgroups.

Comment 5

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Joshua do you think you could work on this for the sake of protocol parity ?

Comment 6

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

It's either this bug, or perhaps I should dupe this (or both?) to bug 314495... Or bug 314495 to 437930, the latter of which has the better info?