David Tenser wrote: > Sometimes my ISP isn't working properly. If Mozilla can't connect > on the first try, it will prompt for my password, even though I > stored previously. Why? > > Sometimes servers have problems, why must Mozilla forget the > password stored just because it didn't successfully login *once* ? > > / David >
just my 0.02 but forgetting the password if authentication fails and never using it again without confirmation from the user is much safer than the alternatives. Bug 133525 indicates the potential results of doing anything else. In fact, if the behaviour indicated in 133525 is anything to go by, mozilla is only forgetting it after trying multiple times - enough to cause account lockouts if its sending the wrong one. I've seen it try a bad password once for every subscribed folder on an IMAP server (with check_all_folders_for_new enabled), blowing my account out of the water before I see a single password dialog. Retrying with the same password is fine if the *connection* failed but once connected an authentication failure should (IMHO) assume that the stored password is bad and forget it immediately. Dave
