Bug#531678: icedove: does not remember imap password, even when you tick that box

[Alexander Prinsier]

Package: icedove
Version: 2.0.0.19-1
Severity: important

I have several imap accounts configured in icedove. For some accounts it has
the password saved in the 'password manager', but for 2 accounts the
password is not in there. So it asks for the password for these 2 accounts
when it tries to log in.

I enter the password, and I tick the box that it has to save it. Next time
I start icedove it just asks again... When I check in the password manager
the password is not in there.

This is always reproducible, and really deteriorates the user experience.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (800, 'unstable'), (800, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF8)
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           2.16.6-1+lenny1   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             3.12.0-5          Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.20.5-3+lenny1   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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