"Enter your password" repeated 100 times.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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thunderbird (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: thunderbird
I have 5 email accounts. But when I try to receive emails, it always asks for my password about a dozen times.
I use Password Manager, but it still asks me for passwords for my various email accounts.
I left Thunderbird open overnight. The next day it had over 100 dialog boxes open asking me for a password.
The title bar of one of them said "Enter your password: <104>".
I clicked the "Cancel" button for over 80 of them. At number <19> it got stuck, and would not exit from this dialog box. Both the "Cancel" and "OK" buttons got no response. And I could not exit from Thunderbird, which is its normal behaviour when its waiting for a password, but which was a problem at this time. I had to use "KDE System Guard" to kill the process.
I am using Thunderbird "2.0.0.16" with Kubuntu "8.04.1".
//Similar problem with Gmail Imap account and Windows XP (details in the comments section).
Changed in thunderbird: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
in my case it's Windows XP and Thunderbird version 2.0.0.16 (20080708).
it's not exactly the same, because i have this problem only with my google imap account. from time to time thunderbird asks for my password (and it keeps asking for a while like if i was wrong with my attempt). i assume it might be caused by some errors/inactivity from gmail imap server, but asking for the password over and over again is a serious bug that blocks entire application (thunderbird).
more people have this issue: groups. google. com/group/ mozilla. feedback. thunderbird/ browse_ thread/ thread/ 254501d38ad58b5 9/0208144510383 86b?lnk= raot&fwc= 1
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