Re: [opensuse] Thunderbird password nuisance.

Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:

On 09/23/2007 08:37 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

I type it, but by this
time the smtp session timed out in the server (I guess) and fails.

Easily fixed by correctly configuring your smtp settings in Account
Settings. Username and password are easily entered there.

Wrong. Username can be entered, not password. Look for yourself.

I try again, and this time Th. asks for my smtp password and whether I
want to keep it. Why?
Because you did not fill it in.

I did.

He already knows that!
It knows you need it because the smtp server requires it, it knows you
did not provide it, and you complain it asks you to do something you may
have forgotten to do? Must be a bad day Carlos

No, Joe, no. I have observed this behavior for months. I did provide
it, I have connected other days, and every time is the same thing. Yes,
I always select "remember password", via master password.

This is a nuisance, because
I use random passwords difficult to remember and have look it up.

No you don't. Enter them in the Settings for the correct smtp server.

There is no password entry box in the smtp server definition box. Look
again. Only username.

Is there a way to make Thunderbird remember my password for ever and not
ask for it again,
Yes, that is what it does when it stores your password.
even if it fails?
No. If it fails, the server asks for a correct password, which after
the entered one fails, it only passes on to the user. That is the
correct thing for it to do.

It is asking for the password, which it already has. I want it to retry,
not to ask for my password. He thinks it is wrong, I know it is correct.

I want to be able to enter the
password in the configuration, not as a pop up when I want to send or
receive.
Then you may in Account Settings, Outgoing Servers (SMTP).

No, I may not. It is not there. Look for your self.

I do not want to be asked again if it fails, because once
configured the password it keeps being correct.

If it is correct, it will not ask and it will not fail. If it fails,
then it is not correct and has to be corrected. I don't believe it
saves a password until it is accepted and works the initial time. HTH.

It fails for different reasons that make he thinks it is wrong. I know
better.

I know better because it connected in the previous session.


Sequence (from memory):

1 send
2 asks for master password. I type it.
3 server timeout and gives error.
4 Thund. ask for smtp passwd. I look it up ant paste it.
5 server fails (another timeout).
6 send
7 Thund. ask for smtp passwd
8 I paste password fast, request it to remember.
9 success.
10 send, sucess, till I close Thund.

Next day: same as above.


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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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