Re: Change in password retention in MailNews?

2020-12-21 Thread NFN Smith
David E. Ross wrote: I was having a similar problem but with Thunderbird. It turned out that the problem was NOT in Thunderbird but in the authentication software in the ISP's mail server. Have you tried contacting your ISP about this? A useful question, but this is happening with multiple

Re: Change in password retention in MailNews?

2020-12-18 Thread Dirk Fieldhouse
On 18/12/2020 19:53, Torsten Funk wrote: ... In the past we could define a timer/timeout somewhere in the preferences, which 'logs out' the password manager. ... Can anybody find this setting in the Preferences? How about signon.masterPasswordReprompt.timeout_ms ? Apparently the default is

Re: Change in password retention in MailNews?

2020-12-18 Thread David E. Ross
On 11/21/2020 11:23 AM, NFN Smith wrote: > This one may be a little bit of a personal quirk, but my handling of > email going to my work account and primary personal account is done > where I let the Seamonkey password manager remember my password for SMTP > and LDAP access, but where I don't

Re: Change in password retention in MailNews?

2020-12-18 Thread Torsten Funk
I have the same issue since a while, and already had opened a thread here with the title 'Seamonkey Mail keeps asking for master password', but got now reply on it. In the past we could define a timer/timeout somewhere in the preferences, which 'logs out' the password manager. This logged out the

Re: Change in password retention in MailNews?

2020-12-01 Thread NFN Smith
Lemuel Johnson wrote: On 11/21/2020 1:23 PM, NFN Smith wrote: Seamonkey seems to be forgetting the entered passwords, and where I have to manually re-enter to check for new mail.  I just upgraded to 2.53.5.1 it's still happening.  I haven't watched closely, but this seems to have started

Re: Change in password retention in MailNews?

2020-11-23 Thread Lemuel Johnson via support-seamonkey
On 11/21/2020 1:23 PM, NFN Smith wrote: This one may be a little bit of a personal quirk, but my handling of email going to my work account and primary personal account is done where I let the Seamonkey password manager remember my password for SMTP and LDAP access, but where I don't allow it