#669859 icedove startup: user flooded with overlapping reminder and password prompts

Package:
iceowl-extension
Source:
thunderbird
Submitter:
Daniel Pocock
Date:
2023-04-26 06:30:20 UTC
Severity:
important
#669859#5
Date:
2012-04-21 12:47:04 UTC
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I have the following configuration:

- email passwords and certificates protected by a master password:
icedove prompts for keyring password on startup

- two calendars: iceowl-extension prompts me to log in to each calendar
on startup (username/password popups)

- reminders configured to display a popup

I find that all the popups come together too quickly, and the reminders
popup keeps trying to come to the front of the password popups, even
while I am typing a password

This sometimes results in the reminders popups interpreting my
keystrokes incorrectly (the keystrokes were intended for one of the
password popups)

A variation of this problem is that sometimes one of the password popups
ends up hidden behind the main window, icedove appears to be frozen, and
it is not always obvious what is wrong.  This could be extremely
confusing for less experienced users.

I have marked the severity `important' because of the fact that a user
typing a password could inadvertently dismiss an important reminder if
their keystrokes were taken by the wrong popup.
#669859#10
Date:
2012-04-22 14:06:44 UTC
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This is fixed in 10.0.3-1
Cheers,
 -- Guido
#669859#17
Date:
2012-05-01 20:17:09 UTC
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Not quite:

- the main window appears

- I am prompted for my first CalDAV username/password - nothing else
appears while this popup is open

- I am prompted for my second CalDAV username/password - nothing else
appears while this popup is open

- the `master password' popup appears, and I start typing the master
password - the reminders popup appears while I am typing my master password

So, the CalDAV password prompts no longer clash with the reminders popup
- but the master password prompt clashes with the reminders

It would actually seem to be more convenient to store the CalDAV
credentials within the keyring protected by the master password
#669859#24
Date:
2016-07-25 20:09:10 UTC
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Hello Daniel,

is this issue still present in recent versions?

Regards
Carsten
#669859#29
Date:
2016-07-25 21:03:25 UTC
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I'm running icedove 38.7.0-1~deb8u1 and iceowl-extension
38.7.0-1~deb8u1, I didn't see the prompt for CalDAV credentials at all
last time I started icedove

I still see multiple prompts for the master password though
#669859#34
Date:
2018-07-27 04:12:25 UTC
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Hello Daniel,

some time has passed by so found this report again.
Still issues about the password prompts in recent versions?

Regards Carsten