Bug#538256: icedove: Silent failure to automatically check inbox when password is incorrect

[Zachary Palmer]

Package: icedove
Version: 2.0.0.22-0lenny1
Severity: normal


Icedove does not display any alert or error message if it automatically 
checks an inbox and the password stored in the password manager is 
incorrect.  The most common example of this occurring is when the e-mail 
server requires a password change (i.e., password expires every six 
months).  In this case, it happily tries the old, dead password again 
and again.

This leads to two problems.  Firstly, the user may be unaware of the 
change (particularly in my case, in which the password is part of an SSO 
system that controls a number of services of which e-mail is only one) 
and thus unaware of the fact that mail may be available.  Second, 
Icedove continually retries with the old password, causing it to trigger 
account lock-outs.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages icedove depends on:
ii  debianutils            2.30              Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  fontconfig             2.6.0-3           generic font configuration library
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                  2.7-18            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.6.4-7           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-3           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.7-2+lenny1    FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.2-1.1       GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.6-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.12-1~lenny1  The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhunspell-1.2-0      1.2.6-1           spell checker and morphological an
ii  libjpeg62              6b-14             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libnspr4-0d            4.7.1-4           NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d             3.12.0-6          Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.20.5-5          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.27-2+lenny2   PNG library - runtime
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.2-1.1         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6               2:1.1.5-2         X11 client-side library
ii  libxft2                2.1.12-3          FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxinerama1           2:1.0.3-2         X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.4-2         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                 1:1.0.5-3         X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  psmisc                 22.6-1            Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

icedove recommends no packages.

Versions of packages icedove suggests:
pn  icedove-gnome-support         <none>     (no description available)
ii  latex-xft-fonts               0.1-8      Xft-compatible versions of some La
ii  libthai0                      0.1.9-4    Thai language support library

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