On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:36:21 -0500, David H. Durgee wrote: > Philip Chee wrote: >> On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:31:31 -0500, David H. Durgee wrote: >> >>> Perhaps that is part of it, but I think there is more to it. Things are >>> working now after closing out and restarting. I have the password >>> manager open to the news.individual.net and it shows two entries for the >>> news server, one with the username and one with the password in addition >>> to a single entry for userid/password on the web site. When the problem >>> is occurring the two news server entries disappear from the password >>> manager. Perhaps they are being removed after an authentication failure >>> from the server. Perhaps they are being removed for some reason and >>> causing the authentication failure. >> >> There was a bug. The news server software would delete password entries >> in the password manager if it failed to log in to the NNTP server too >> many times. *Any* sufficient number of failures would cause this >> including poor connections, long delays, etc. This bug has been fixed in >> sufficiently new versions of Thunderbird/SeaMonkey. Now *Only* >> authentication failures are counted. Any other types of failures >> including connection problems do not count. >> >> Phil > > You indicate that this has been fixed in "sufficiently new versions of > Thunderbird/SeaMonkey" above. I am running "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux > x86_64; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20111122 Firefox/8.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.5", which to > my understanding is the current release. Why am I seeing this bug? I > find the only solution once it rears its ugly head it to close down > SeaMonkey and restart it to answer the prompts and get the data saved.
My mistake. jcranmer is still working on this. Phil -- Philip Chee <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
