I have an account with IMAP and SMTP authentication. The "Send" tab of
the account's configuration has SMTP Auth ticked, but the user ID and
password fields left blank. It says "If you leave these entries empty,
the same user ID and password as receiving will be used."

I have the user ID set for Receive, but not password, so I'm prompted on
startup for this. This is fine. But I was expecting this to mean that
same password is remembered and used for SMTP send, but it isn't. After
starting Claws, the first time I try to send mail it will ask again for
the SMTP password, which is the same as receiving.

Should it not be reusing that remembered IMAP password?

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thanks

  Hi Paul,

  Well, yes and no :) It's the same password value, but they're two
different password entries. When if you leave the entry blank you're
asked for the password, but that entry is still blank (can't be other
way, otherwise your configuration would be changed!), hence the sending
mechanism sees a blank password, and asks again.

  IOW, it's literally the same user and password you _set_ for receiving,
not the same user and password you _input_ for receiving. You can think of
it as the password at configure time and the password at runtime.

  Nevertheless I understand this could be an interesting feature, though
not really know how difficult to implement, so I'm forwarding this upstream
to get more input.

  thanks for reporting,