Bug 268877 - "password not correct"-notification is not helpful
Summary: "password not correct"-notification is not helpful
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: kmail2
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2011-03-19 11:03 UTC by S. Burmeister
Modified: 2013-02-09 21:27 UTC (History)
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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".