Closed Bug 195209 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Mail does not prompt for new password if it was changed

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, defect)

x86
Windows NT
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 182362

People

(Reporter: register, Assigned: naving)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 Tested on POP3, IMAP can be affected by this too perhaps. If your mail server password is changed, and you have mailbox password stored in password manager, login will fail with message "PASS command did not succeed". After you hit OK, mozilla tries to log in again in several second. Consequences: - You have to go to password manager to delete mailbox account password. - You have just aproximately 5 seconds to start password manager, after this time new error box appears. - Your account can be blocked by server after X unsuccessful logins, if such policy is set up on server. This is a case at least with exchnge server and NT domain. - it is really probable that your account is locked out while you are trying to start password manager to delete the password. This is really annoying. Correct behaviour: If password does not work, unsave(delete) password in password manager and ask for new one (or ask user if he wants to enter new password). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Setup POP3 account, set automatic retrievial of messages at startup 2. Get mail, save password, close MailNews 3. Change password for account 4. Start MailNews again Bug 126180 (see comment #9) is close to this one (anyway not a DUP, since this one deal only with logic, while 126180 requires UI change to Account manager).
Yeah, I see this with IMAP; the error message is different but the other symptoms are identical. This seems to be a duplicate of bug 182362. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 182362 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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