On 09/23/2007 09:51 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: > Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > > >> 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. > Sorry, you are correct, it is only the username that gets entered there. Password is entered first time it is used, if it is successful. IIRC, when it fails, it prompts but does not remove the old one (but IIRC, it does uncheck the Save this Password in the Password manager checkbox). If you know it is correct, you can just recheck to save and hit Enter. If you just hit Enter, it retries it but no longer saves it. I have used Thunderbird for years, using Mozilla Messenger before that, and I don't remember having the problem you address. I still believe it is under your control. And if your SMTP server timeout while waiting for you to type in your Master Password, you really have smtp server problems. I would not blame the client. > 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 believe that effectively it does retry with the same password if you click to save the password and hit enter, AND it works. If it still fails, it will prompt again. If it does not work, I believe it will wipe out the stored password unless you cancel. >> Then you may in Account Settings, Outgoing Servers (SMTP). >> > > No, I may not. It is not there. Look for your self. > You are correct. I was wrong. My advice was bogus. Sorry. > > It fails for different reasons that make he thinks it is wrong. IIANM, it thinks it is wrong based on the server response. > I know > better. > > I know better because it connected in the previous session. > Then you should choose to either cancel, which basically stops everything in that transaction, or hit save and Enter, which resubmits the original and saves if it succeeds. > > Sequence (from memory): > > 1 send > 2 asks for master password. I type it. > 3 server timeout and gives error. > Unless you left your computer, that is ridiculously short. > 4 Thund. ask for smtp passwd. I look it up ant paste it. > Isn't it still there, though highlighted to be replaced? > 5 server fails (another timeout). > I believe the server has to give the client an error code from which it determines its responses. If it prompts for the password, then IIANM that is the error code sent to it by your smtp server. > 6 send > 7 Thund. ask for smtp passwd > Since the previous attempt failed. > 8 I paste password fast, request it to remember. > 9 success. > 10 send, sucess, till I close Thund. > > Next day: same as above. > Are you saying it does not remember the password the next day, or a failure causes it to prompt for the correct one?
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