Comment 25 for bug 297301

I could almost agree with comment #24, except that asynchronously appearing modal dialog boxes are bad because they block continued operations, and asynchronously appearing dialog boxes that ask for password information could be spoofed by trojans once people are used to answering them.

It would be nice if the actual error message was provided; if the password needs to be changed, there should be a facility in Thunderbird/SeaMonkey to allow the user to enter the password as a command, icon, or menu option... a synchronous operation, rather than an asynchronous one.

It is true that the "first access" to a mail server is sort of synchronous, but when these dialog boxes appear as part of biff-type operations, they are very susceptible to being spoofed by trojans, as they appear to be asynchronous to the user.