On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 15:00 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Magnus Boman wrote:
Is there a way to make Thunderbird remember my password for ever and not ask for it again, even if it fails? I want to be able to enter the password in the configuration, not as a pop up when I want to send or receive. I do not want to be asked again if it fails, because once configured the password it keeps being correct.
That would be a very bad thing to do (TM). Reason is that if you're with a provide or company with a policy to only allow three (or however many) tries before you locked out, and you're also forced to change password periodically, guess what's going to happen.... Probably better to find out why it fails the first time, unfortunately I am not the right person for that job.
I know why it fails: while I type my master password the remote server times out, probably because it thinks I'm a human and not a machine. Or something of the sort. Not important.
What you say about changing passwords is not a problem at all: we could change it manually in the configuration instead. I just don't want to be prompted for the password. I want it to remember the password even if it fails, and let me decide if I want to type a new password.
Linux style, not windows style :-P
Ie, I want the configuration box to have:
server _______ login _______ (*) remember password password ________ ( ) prompt for password on failure
How many people out there would understand that? I bet that most would check "Remember password" and they'd be locked out of their system before they know it. Has got NOTHING to do with Windows vs Linux.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from RC1)
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