822183 - Automatic check of new pop mail is not working if GSSAPI is used

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)

Description

[Pavel]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0
Build ID: 20121128204232

Steps to reproduce:

When GSSAPI authentication scheme is used and there is no stored password for account, then automatic check for new messages not working.
How to replay:
- There is a POP3-server with support for the CRAM-MD5 and GSSAPI
- In the Thunderbird create a new account and choose method GSSAPI
- New messages are now checked only at startup or manually
- In the Thunderbird choose the method "Encrypted password". Thunderbird asks for a password for the first time you check the mailbox, and stores the password.
- New messages are now checked automatically after a specified period of time
- In the Thunderbird choose the method GSSAPI
- The Thunderbird continue to check new messages automatically after a specified period of time
- In the settings menu remove the saved mailbox password
- New messages are now  checked only at startup or manually



Actual results:

New messages are checked only at startup or manually if the method GSSAPI is used and and there is no stored password for account


Expected results:

New messages are checked automatically after a specified period of time if the method GSSAPI is used and and there is no stored password for account

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Pavel, do you still see this problem when using a current version of Thunderbird??

Comment 2

[Pavel]

Wayne,
Thank you for the reply.
Yes, I do.
I re-checked it today with the latest Thunderbird 45.4.0 - still doesn't check automatically with GSSAPI. Plain scheme works.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Pavel, do you still see this issue?

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Reporter appears to be gone