"Enter your password" repeated 100 times.

[Martin Sondergaard]

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).

[Kacper86 (cpphool)]

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:
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.feedback.thunderbird/browse_thread/thread/254501d38ad58b59/020814451038386b?lnk=raot&fwc=1

[Martin Sondergaard (linux-sondergaard)]

I now realize that it would ask me for my password repeatedly because Password Manager was not functioning. It was not functioning because I had forgotten the correct password for Password Manager, and I always entered an incorrect one.

Of course, its incorrect for Thunderbird to ask for the password repeatedly. But its no longer a problem for me because I have reset the password for Password Manager, and I can remember this password. This makes Thunderbird work much better.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

This still happens in 2.0.0.18 but only IMAP and not all boxes i have in IMAP. Please look for upstream bug report if you can find one please file one. I think i just saw this bug in another LP bug. I'm looking for that one.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Im thinking this is same as bug #264299 I think this is a IMAP issue not so much a LDAP

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

yes, probably dupe of 264299

[graylion (graylion)]

guys, I am not entirely sure that this is a dupe of 264299. this one here seems very GMAIL-specific, I am getting it too. I always figured that this was the reason why gmail has been added as a separate account type in shredder. And it totally seems to depend on gmail. I get it very irregularly and never when changing identities, whereas 264299 is only ever when changing identities.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

graylion wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 264299 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/264299
>
> guys, I am not entirely sure that this is a dupe of 264299. this one
> here seems very GMAIL-specific, I am getting it too. I always figured
> that this was the reason why gmail has been added as a separate account
> type in shredder. And it totally seems to depend on gmail. I get it very
> irregularly and never when changing identities, whereas 264299 is only
> ever when changing identities.
>
>
fwiw, gmail works well for me in tbird 2.0.0.x and shredder. maybe its
extension related for you?