From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.8.1+) Gecko/20010430 BuildID: 20010430 When enabling the check box "Use Password Manager to remember this value" on a Secure Newsgroup, the next time you start Mozilla up, it does not remember the when you check messages on the Secure Newgroup. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add a Secure Newsgroup 2. Set your usename, click the "Use Password Manager to remember this value" box 3. Set your password, click the "Use Password Manager to remember this value" box yet again (I think this is a bug as well) 4. Subscribe to a forum in the newsgroup 5. Exit & Restart Mozilla 6. Get new messages from the forum to which you subscribed Actual Results: It will ask for user and password again Expected Results: Automatically entered the user and password for you

My apologies for not looking at this sooner. However, this is working for me with build 2001050904 using secnews.netscape.com on 563 with authenticated newsgroup, "netscape.champions". When I enter my username and password, and use the dialog to save both, upon re-launch of Mozilla I am not prompted for this information on reading of messages. This is using Collabra 3.52. Brandon, can you try this again with a later build, and perhaps give us a protocol log? You can find instructions for doing so at: http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html#imap Thanks, please re-open this if with a current nightly this is still not working for you.

Latest build seems to work now

Yup, for me too. Thanks for reporting back. verified.

This bug has reappeared again, but it is seemingly random now, but I think it might be related to having multiple threads being accessed at once, only the first thread remembers the password, additional threads require you to re-enter the saved password.

Can you give me a possible testcase for this? Threads don't cause my user/pass prompts to re-occur, everytime I select a message in my authenticated newsgroup, it downloads the message body without questioning.

Subscribe to about 6-10 newsgroups on the same secure news server. Click on the first one, enter your username and password, click the "Remember password" button. Once it downloads the headers, exit mozilla and restart (just to be safe). Now click on all 10 newgroups as fast as you can and let mozilla set there and crunch. The first couple of groups you clicked on will work ok, but then the last few will each ask you for a name and password again.

I'll take a look at this, in the meantime can you give us a logfile? See http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html#imap for instructions. Thanks!

Cool, so I think I've narrowed this down (I don't believe it's limited to Secure newsgroups, as snews:// and news:// urls I think are passed onto Password Manager in nearly the same structure): 1. Authenticate with a newsgroup on a server, and choose "Remember these values...". 2. Bring up the subscribe dialog and add another newsgroup. 3. Click on the postings in the newsgroup from step #2. You'll get asked to authenticate, but instead of doing so, just click on the newsgroup in step #1. 4. Now, go back to the 2nd newsgroup (step #2), and note that it works. The problem is that Password Manager stores for each newsgroup, instead of per-server. news://stephend@cis.dfn.de:119/netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news#password news://stephend@cis.dfn.de:119/netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news#username Seth, I'm pretty sure this is the bug we talked about once on the way to Burrito Real ;-)

*** Bug 122476 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 136863 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I encounter this problem with nonsecure servers, so I'll edit the Summary to reflect this. Also setting All/All as my configuration is FizzillaCFM/2002040908.

I had the same problem previosly, but build 2002040410 have "reduced" this to a alternating bug (sometimes it works, sometimes it dont). This bug is NOT restricted to Windows, I got it on RedHat Linux 7.2 and SuSE Linux 7.3. I have met the bug in NS4 and NS6 on Win98, NT and 2000 (SP3), and RH6.2, 7.0 and 7.2 plus Mandrake 7.2, so I have always considered this as a "feature". I posted an suggestion for enhancement (bug 136873), what I suggest is something similar to this: +-----------+ +-------------+ +-------------+ |readNews() |--------|newsGroup |---------|newsAccount()| |-----------| |-------------| |-------------| |+accountName | |-userName | |-password | |-------------| The diagram is ment to describe that the identification of the newsgroup should be based on the identification of the account, in contrast to today, where you do have to set a separate username and password for every single newsgroup in a newsaccount. I do not know why you have to assign a separete identification for each newsgroup, but it shouldn't be neccesary.

I think I know what is happening. If you let the password manager store your authentication details you can see it too (make sure you enlarge the Password Manager window). I did it and could see more than one autentication entry for the same news server, but for different newsgroups. See the attached screen shot. So, it seems the bug is that Mozilla is not treating these authentications as equivalent and if you ask to get in a new group, it stores a new authentication entry in the password manager that will not be used.

As you may see, the Password Manager stores more than one authentication credentials for the same news server but for different groups.

The problem about the password manager is implemented in such way that it fooled me to consider it a stupid feature, not a bug. I have had the authentication stored separately for each single newsgroup, in all versions of netscape I have used to look for this "feature". The authentication problem described initially is not related to windows, or a specific version of neetscape 7 mozilla, I have had it in netscape 4.5, 4.75, 6, 6.1 and 6.2 (and many of the versions of mozilla I have used over the last years). The difficult thing about it is that it is NOT a easily reproduceable bug, it just exists sometimes. (I have reprodused it in Win3.1, 95, 98, 98se, ME, NT 3 & 4, 2000 SP1&3, RedHat 6.2, 7, 7.1 and 7.2, SuSE 7.0 & 7.3 and a few other OSes...)

I'm pretty sure now that this is really just bug 36816...

This IS in fact bug 36816, or a side effect from it. Bug 36816 got a strange response originally... VOTE FOR IT!

I am not so sure this is related to that other bug. One thing that I've noticed recently is that this bug only happens on SMP systems when your trying to access multiple newsgroups at once. It appears as if browser is opening a second connection to the news server and on this second connection, the password manager is not remembering your username & password.

Dupe. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 36816 ***

Verified dup