8213 - [NEWS]Remember username/password in newsgroup

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

Description

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

from news://news.mozilla.org/3761E26C.C450C3DA%40yknet.yk.ca

"How about an option in Messenger to remember my news server username and
password? It's a pain to have to type it in the first time I get news
messages after starting Messenger."

I've added this to http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/jobs.html

Comment 1

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marking m15

Comment 2

[lchiang]

changing severity to enhancement.

Comment 3

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accepting bug.

Comment 4

[lchiang]

<updated qa contact name>

Comment 5

[Paul MacQuiddy]

I would think single-signon will be able to handle this. I haven't set up
newsgroups yet with 5.0 to test this though. cc'ing morse also for his wisdom.

Comment 6

[Stephen P. Morse]

Single signon does handle this or at least it did at one time.  Many changes
have occured since I initially put the code into mail/news to do this so it
might not be working any more.  I haven't checked it lately and don't intend to
do so until after necko lands because so many of the single-signon dialogs are
currently busted due to lack of necko.

After necko lands I will be testing all places where single signon is supposed
to kick in and replace the single signon call from any modules from which
someone has removed it (e.g., it has been yanked out of site authentication
because of the dialog problems).

I'll keep this bug report as a reminder that I need to do this clean-up and will
close it out once I do.

Comment 7

[Stephen P. Morse]

Removing the [RFE] designation from the Summary line.  This is not an
enhancement but rather was always intended as part of the functionality of
single-signon.

Changing severity from "enhancement" to "normal" for the same reason.

Comment 8

[Stephen P. Morse]

Moving this from M9 to M10 because it depends on 10582 which is marked M10.

Comment 9

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why is this assigned to morse?

also, adding mscott to the cc line.  he's revamping / combining the pop & imap
password work (and using the signon / wallet stuff too, I think.)

when I get to news passwords, I'm going to talk to him.

If no one objects, I'm going to re-assign this to me.

Comment 10

[lchiang]

morse assigned it to himself (per bug activity log)

Comment 11

[Stephen P. Morse]

I assigned it to myself because I was going to attach single signon wherever it
was appropriate (basic site authentication, mailnews, etc.).  To that end I have
made several changes to single singon this past week-end and even provided
mscott with patches to be put into mailnews to use the single signon.

But if you want to be responsible for actually putting the patches into
mailnews now that I have the single-signon side ready for it, then by all means
do so.  I don't care who's name is on it as long as the job gets done.

Comment 12

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re-assigning to me.

when the time comes, I'll work with mscott to use his common password code, that
he's worked with morse to integrate with single sign on.

also, setting target milestone to m11.

Comment 13

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accepting.

Comment 14

[Phil Peterson]

Triage to M15

Comment 15

[Karen Huang]

Change QA Contact to me since it's my feature now.

Comment 16

[Stephen P. Morse]

*** Bug 11047 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

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fixed.

Comment 18

[Karen Huang]

Remember username/password is working on newsgroup "news://poisonivy/xrated" 
now....
OK for 02-11-08-M14 WinNT commercial build 
OK for 02-11-11-M14 Linux commercial build 
OK for 02-11-12-M14 Mac commercial build
Marking as verified!!