Closed Bug 98029 Opened 24 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Must log in twice or more to Earthlink nntp server

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 36816

People

(Reporter: goodmanj, Assigned: sspitzer)

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This may be a Networking - News bug, or it may be an evangelism bug. Bug setup: Account setup in MailNews for news.earthlink.net. Subscribed to two newsgroups: sci.space.tech and sci.space.science. Reproducing the bug:1) Start MailNews 2) Enter IMAP password. 3) Enter News username (goodsmit@earthlink.net) 4) Enter News password. 5) Open first newsgroup (sci.space.tech), read some news. 6) Compose a reply, hit "send". 7) Enter News username. 8) Enter News password. 9) Open second newsgroup (sci.space.science). 10) Enter News username. 11) Enter News password. Reproducibility: I seem to always need to enter username/password the first time you reply to a message. I *sometimes* am asked for username/password for the second newsgroup. Expected results: As I recall, NS4 required only one login at the beginning of the News session. I shouldn't have to type in my password multiple times. Caveats: Earthlink's news server could have some sort of timeout feature, which could explain some of this behavior. But it only takes me a few minutes to type in and send a reply, after reading a message, and why does it seem to happen so much more often with Mozilla than NS4? Build ID: 2001083108
Jason, can you post an NNTP log, please? This would help out a great, since I don't have credentials to test Earthlink myself. Refer, if you would, to http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html#imap for instructions, substituting NNTP for IMAP, thanks!
Okay, Seth told me briefly what's going on with this. It has to do with the URI scheme, and the way we're sending/storing the user/name pass for the news URI to the password manager. It needs to be more robust, and do it per server (I hope I got that right.)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
*** Bug 96896 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 101635 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Partial patch looks good so far.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 36816 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
verified dup - I copied the patch link and relevant information into the older bug.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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