Bug 229979

Summary:	password not asked again if wrong.
Product:	[Applications] kmail	Reporter:	Panard <panard>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bjoern, cc, gianted, giovanni, mathias, silver.salonen, tim.eberhardt
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.13.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Panard 2010-03-08 19:22:53 UTC

Version:           1.13.1 (using 4.4.1 (KDE 4.4.1), Gentoo)
Compiler:          x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.32-gentoo-r5

Using IMAPS/SSL-Plain authentification method.
When starting, kmail asks me the password for my account.
If I enter it wrong, kmail fails fetching the mails, but do not ask again for a password.
I have to quit and restart it to enter again my password.

Comment 1 Tim Eberhardt 2010-05-19 21:06:07 UTC

I had a similar issue (IMAP/SSL-Plain). I changed my mail password but kmail doesn't alert me that it can't check for new mail. It just does nothing. You even can it the check button and nothing happens(no error or notice). You have to go in the account settings and change password there. (kmail/kontact 4.4.3 on gentoo x86_64)

Comment 2 Silver Salonen 2010-06-22 09:55:25 UTC

I use KDE 4.4.4 on openSUSE 11.2 (x86_64) and I just changed my password in IMAP/SMTP server. After that KMail couldn't send e-mails, because SMTP-authentication failed and it didn't ask for a password again. After restarting KMail, IMAP-auth failed too and I got just a notification that it failed - no asking for a new password. One has to go to configuring IMAP-account and re-set the password there (it's remembered in KWallet in my case).

Comment 3 Björn Ruberg 2010-08-06 20:58:00 UTC

*** Bug 245153 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 gianted 2010-08-15 09:11:27 UTC

if I'm confident in a good password (while actually I fill the login with a wrong one), I can reply to a listed email (not fetched, of course): I am stuck on waiting a dialog closure like "wait until the message is downloaded" (see my attachment).

Comment 5 Mathias 2011-02-04 09:29:49 UTC

Joining this report with the usual metoo

BTW: Bug 251416 is a duplicate of this one (dont know how to mark as one).

Comment 6 Björn Ruberg 2011-02-04 09:32:42 UTC

*** Bug 251416 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Laurent Montel 2015-04-12 10:17:51 UTC

Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report.

KMail2 was released in 2011, and the entire code base went through significant changes. We are currently in the process of porting to Qt5 and KF5. It is unlikely that these bugs are still valid in KMail2.

We welcome you to try out KMail 2 with the KDE 4.14 release and give your feedback.