643883 - no password prompt if e-mail account password was changed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 505481

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, defect)

Description

[rockdragon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110307 Firefox/3.6.15
Build Identifier: 3.1.9

If the email account password changes, it's impossible to change it in Thunderbird to, if you activated the password remember functionality. 

You've to create a new (Thunderbird-) account in order to access your account from Thunderbird again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create account in Thunderbird
2.set password remember option
3.change password of your e-mail account
Actual Results:  
Thunderbird doesn't load the newest mails. (...because the pass is wrong...)

Expected Results:  
popped up a new password prompt or a possibility to deactivate the password remember function.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

Are you using imap or pop3? In either case, the corresponding protocol log would be useful - https://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:Logging

Comment 2

[cleatusmcfarlan]

i have same issue tbird 8.0 and ubuntu 11.10. i ran ran the commands for imap logs but don't know where they are saved to. i'm using imap. corresponding forum post:http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/change_existing_email_accounts_password?utm_content=topic_link&utm_medium=email&utm_source=reply_notification

Comment 3

[:aceman]

You can go into Preferences -> Privacy -> Show passwords and delete the old password entry there.

Nevertheless, this is a bug.