Closed Bug 54809 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

Mail does not prompt for password a second time if first is wrong

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, defect, P3)

x86
Linux
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: stephe, Assigned: jefft)

Details

Mozilla will not reprompt me for the password for my POP3 account if I get it wrong the first time. I am not using the password manager so every time I start Mozilla and check my mail, I am prompted for the password for my POP3 account. If I enter the wrong password, I get a dialog that says in part: "An error occurred while sending your password to the mail server...." Actually I get two of these dialogs. One would seem to be enough. But, the real problem I am having is that if I try to get my mail again, Mozilla does not reprompt me for my password but simply resends the bad password. The only way I can get Mozilla to prompt me for the password is to restart it. This seems to be a recent regression since I distinctly remember that Mozilla would keep prompting me for my password until I got it right, which in my case could be quite a few times. Tested in Mozilla 093009 on Linux.
Tested on 09302000 linux release build. This works fine for me. It would be nice if you could provide the POP3 client log. Thanks,
Windows works as expected too.
POP3 client log? Where do I get one of those?
Oh, forgot to mention. Prior to start up the mozilla application set the following environment variable: setenv NSPR_LOG_MODULES POP3 setenv NSPR_LOG_FILE ~/tmp/pop3log.txt When shutting down the app, the pop3log.txt should capture all the pop3 client transactions.
Still broken for me on Mozilla 100215 on Linux. The log follows, but here is what I observed that is different between Moz on Linux and Moz on NT: On Linux I get two of the "An error occurred while sending your password to the mail server...." dialogs, one after the other. On NT, I get one error dialog followed by the password prompt. 1024[80583b8]: Entering NET_ProcessPop3 56 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 1 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 2 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 4 1024[80583b8]: RECV: +OK QPOP (version 3.0b22) at ned.wenet.net starting. 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 29 1024[80583b8]: SEND: AUTH 1024[80583b8]: Entering NET_ProcessPop3 45 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 3 1024[80583b8]: RECV: +OK Following are Supported SASL mechanisms 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 30 1024[80583b8]: Entering NET_ProcessPop3 3 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 30 1024[80583b8]: RECV: . 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 5 1024[80583b8]: SEND: USER stephe 1024[80583b8]: Entering NET_ProcessPop3 35 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 3 1024[80583b8]: RECV: +OK Password required for stephe. 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 6 1024[80583b8]: SEND: PASS asdfasdf 1024[80583b8]: Entering NET_ProcessPop3 51 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 3 1024[80583b8]: RECV: -ERR Password supplied for "stephe" is incorrect. 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 7 1024[80583b8]: Entering NET_ProcessPop3 46 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 7 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 5 1024[80583b8]: SEND: USER stephe 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 5 1024[80583b8]: SEND: USER stephe 1024[80583b8]: Entering NET_ProcessPop3 56 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 1 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 2 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 4 1024[80583b8]: RECV: +OK QPOP (version 3.0b22) at ned.wenet.net starting. 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 5 1024[80583b8]: SEND: USER stephe 1024[80583b8]: Entering NET_ProcessPop3 35 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 3 1024[80583b8]: RECV: +OK Password required for stephe. 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 6 1024[80583b8]: SEND: PASS asdfasdf 1024[80583b8]: Entering NET_ProcessPop3 51 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 3 1024[80583b8]: RECV: -ERR Password supplied for "stephe" is incorrect. 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 7 1024[80583b8]: Entering NET_ProcessPop3 46 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 7 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 5 1024[80583b8]: SEND: USER stephe 1024[80583b8]: POP3: Entering state: 5 1024[80583b8]: SEND: USER stephe
Worksforme with 110108 mozilla trunk build on RedHat6.2. I get an alert saying that an error occurred while sending password. If I hit OK then I get a ne password dialog.
Marking as Worksforme as per Asa's comments. Reopen if its still a problem.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Works for me using Linux 2000120721. VERIFIED.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
QA Contact: esther → stephend
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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