Bug 268877

Summary:	"password not correct"-notification is not helpful
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	S. Burmeister <sven.burmeister>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	kollix
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
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Description S. Burmeister 2011-03-19 11:03:34 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.1) 
OS:                Linux

If one tries to send a message and the server replies that the authentication failed kmail just pops-up a small notification which goes away after some seconds. The user is not even able to read the whole text.

If akonadi notices that authentication for a server fails it issues a dialogue that asks whether one wants to open the settings for that dialogue and change the password.

I think that kmail should do the same a) to have a consistent behaviour towards the user and b) because it gives the user to change the password with less clicks.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Martin Koller 2013-02-09 21:27:05 UTC

Testing with 4.10 and sending a mail with invalid authetication credentials pops up a dialog here asking me "You need to supply a username and a password to use this SMTP server".