Thunderbird & Lightning keep asking for Passwords

[Peter Lairo]

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I was having difficulties getting a new CalDAV calender to work, so I
tried the suggestion in bug 510850#c13:

set "calendar.network.multirealm" to true

That caused Thunderbird (or Lightning?) to ask me to log-in to *each* of
my 16(!) CalDav Google calendars and also into one of my Google e-mail
accounts on *each* restart of Thunderbird. The calendar log-in dialogs
have no check-box for "remember this password", and checking it in the
one e-mail account's dialog has no effect either.

So, I set the about:config setting "calendar.network.multirealm" back to
false. So I'm back to the configuration that used to work. It should now
work again. But does it? No. Now I'm stuck.

I suspect that Thunderbird and/or Lightning needs to be told to remember
passwords again. But how?

Could someone *please* help me get rid of these password prompts? I
would *really* like to avoid re-installing all 16(!) of my calendars.

Cross-posted, and "Follow-up" set to mozilla.support.calendar
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Regards,
Peter Lairo

Bugs I think are important:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250539
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391057
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436259
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446444

Islam: http://www.jihadwatch.org/islam101/
Israel: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths2/
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster: http://www.venganza.org/
Anthropogenic Global Warming skepsis: http://tinyurl.com/AGW-Skepsis


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Regards,
Peter Lairo

Bugs I think are important:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250539
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391057
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436259
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446444

Islam: http://www.jihadwatch.org/islam101/
Israel: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths2/
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster: http://www.venganza.org/
Anthropogenic Global Warming skepsis: http://tinyurl.com/AGW-Skepsis

[Peter Taylor]

On 1/19/2013 3:51 PM, Peter Lairo wrote:
> *** I x-posted this post but it never appeared. ***
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> *******************************************************
>
> I was having difficulties getting a new CalDAV calender to work, so I
> tried the suggestion in bug 510850#c13:
>
> set "calendar.network.multirealm" to true
>
> That caused Thunderbird (or Lightning?) to ask me to log-in to *each* of
> my 16(!) CalDav Google calendars and also into one of my Google e-mail
> accounts on *each* restart of Thunderbird. The calendar log-in dialogs
> have no check-box for "remember this password", and checking it in the
> one e-mail account's dialog has no effect either.
>
> So, I set the about:config setting "calendar.network.multirealm" back to
> false. So I'm back to the configuration that used to work. It should now
> work again. But does it? No. Now I'm stuck.
>
> I suspect that Thunderbird and/or Lightning needs to be told to remember
> passwords again. But how?
>
> Could someone *please* help me get rid of these password prompts? I
> would *really* like to avoid re-installing all 16(!) of my calendars.
>
> Cross-posted, and "Follow-up" set to mozilla.support.calendar

I take it you didn't back up before doing this.

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Peter Taylor

[Peter Lairo]

I didn't.

[Lynn McGuire]

On 1/19/2013 8:51 AM, Peter Lairo wrote:
> *** I x-posted this post but it never appeared. ***
> *** Is x-posing being blocked? ***
> *******************************************************
>
> I was having difficulties getting a new CalDAV calender to work, so I
> tried the suggestion in bug 510850#c13:
>
> set "calendar.network.multirealm" to true
>
> That caused Thunderbird (or Lightning?) to ask me to log-in to *each* of
> my 16(!) CalDav Google calendars and also into one of my Google e-mail
> accounts on *each* restart of Thunderbird. The calendar log-in dialogs
> have no check-box for "remember this password", and checking it in the
> one e-mail account's dialog has no effect either.
>
> So, I set the about:config setting "calendar.network.multirealm" back to
> false. So I'm back to the configuration that used to work. It should now
> work again. But does it? No. Now I'm stuck.
>
> I suspect that Thunderbird and/or Lightning needs to be told to remember
> passwords again. But how?
>
> Could someone *please* help me get rid of these password prompts? I
> would *really* like to avoid re-installing all 16(!) of my calendars.
>
> Cross-posted, and "Follow-up" set to mozilla.support.calendar

TB 15 to 17 has asked me for passwords continuously
on my home Windows 7 x64 pc but not my office
windows 7 x64 pc. It is very tiresome.

Lynn

[James Moe]

On 01/19/2013 07:51 AM, Peter Lairo wrote:
>
> set "calendar.network.multirealm" to true
>
> That caused Thunderbird (or Lightning?) to ask me to log-in to *each* of
> my 16(!) CalDav Google calendars and also into one of my Google e-mail
> accounts on *each* restart of Thunderbird. The calendar log-in dialogs
> have no check-box for "remember this password", and checking it in the
> one e-mail account's dialog has no effect either.
>

Try the "Provider for Google Calendar" addon.
Here, it does this:
- Eliminates multiple login requests
- Prevents the non-functioning script problem (I do not know why, it
just does, even on computers that do not connect to Google Calendars.)

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James Moe
jmm-list at sohnen-moe dot com

[Peter Lairo]

Thanks for your suggestion.

I installed the "Provider for Google Calendar" add-on, and *I still get
the login dialogs* for each of my CalDAV calendar.

A couple of notes:

- I cannot find any UI for the "Provider for Google Calendar" add-on.

- The PW prompts are for my *CalDAV* calendars. I thought the add-on was
for iCal calendars.

- I'm using Thunderbird daily (Application Build ID 20130122030959)

- I'm using Lightning trunk (2.3a1, the build date not shown in the UI)

Is there anything I can do to force Thunderbird to remember my Lightning
login info? I'm willing to edit my about:config, prefs.js, anything to
fix this mess. Please help.

BTW: Now there's an additional new problem:
Lightning is now messing up the order that it lists my calendars in the
left panel of the main UI. When I fix the order, it's messed up again
after a restart of Thunderbird.

[gNeandr]

Just to add some observations:

I have a problem to add/use a Google Calendar in Lightning. Defining a
calendar (which is available with other service and also using an
Android Smartphone) these errors are thrown:
> ----------
> Fehler: Component returned failure code: 0x804b000a
(NS_ERROR_MALFORMED_URI) [nsIIOService2.newChannelFromURI]
> Quelldatei: resource://calendar/modules/calProviderUtils.jsm
> Zeile: 29
>
> -- this is ---
> 28 cal.prepHttpChannel = function calPrepHttpChannel(aUri,
aUploadData, aContentType, aNotificationCallbacks, aExisting) {
> 29 let channel = aExisting ||
cal.getIOService().newChannelFromURI(aUri);
>
> ----------
> Warnung: Fehler beim Lesen von Daten f�r Kalender:
{--calendarName--}. Allerdings ist dieser Fehler wahrscheinlich
vernachl�ssigbar, daher versucht das Programm fortzufahren. Fehlercode:
DAV_NOT_DAV. Beschreibung: Die Ressource auf
https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/{--login1--}@googlemail.com/events/
ist entweder keine DAV-Sammlung oder sie ist nicht verf�gbar
> ----------


I'm using another Google Calendar which works well :
https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/{--login2--}@googlemail.com/events/

For the second calendar it was necessary to enter login details, but
after restart it wasn't asked again.
(and yes I stored un/pw with TB PW manager).


Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130106
Thunderbird/17.0.2 -- 20130106044124
Lightning 1.9

[Thomas Boehm]

Peter Lairo wrote:

> I installed the "Provider for Google Calendar" add-on, and *I still get
> the login dialogs* for each of my CalDAV calendar.

Did you add your calendars as new calendars? Then you have the option to
chose "Google Calendar" instead of "CalDAV". But I wouldn't use the
Google Provider thought, every additional addon increases the risk of
breaking something on the next update.

> A couple of notes:
>
> - I cannot find any UI for the "Provider for Google Calendar" add-on.

The will be an option when adding a new calendar.

> - The PW prompts are for my *CalDAV* calendars. I thought the add-on was
> for iCal calendars.
>
> - I'm using Thunderbird daily (Application Build ID 20130122030959)
>
> - I'm using Lightning trunk (2.3a1, the build date not shown in the UI)
>
> Is there anything I can do to force Thunderbird to remember my Lightning
> login info? I'm willing to edit my about:config, prefs.js, anything to
> fix this mess. Please help.

Did you delete all the passwords for these calendars in TB's password
manager and restart TB?

> BTW: Now there's an additional new problem:
> Lightning is now messing up the order that it lists my calendars in the
> left panel of the main UI. When I fix the order, it's messed up again
> after a restart of Thunderbird.

Just drag and drop the calender where you want to have them.

HTH
Thomas

[Peter Lairo]

On Di. 29.01.2013 14:51, Thomas Boehm wrote:
> Peter Lairo wrote:
>
>> I installed the "Provider for Google Calendar" add-on, and *I still get
>> the login dialogs* for each of my CalDAV calendar.
>
> Did you add your calendars as new calendars? Then you have the option to
> chose "Google Calendar" instead of "CalDAV". But I wouldn't use the
> Google Provider thought, every additional addon increases the risk of
> breaking something on the next update.

That is one reason I don't want to use the add-on. Another reason I
already stated in my OP: "I would *really* like to avoid re-installing

all 16(!) of my calendars."

>> - The PW prompts are for my *CalDAV* calendars. I thought the add-on was
>> for iCal calendars.
>>
>> - I'm using Thunderbird daily (Application Build ID 20130122030959)
>>
>> - I'm using Lightning trunk (2.3a1, the build date not shown in the UI)
>>
>> Is there anything I can do to force Thunderbird to remember my Lightning
>> login info? I'm willing to edit my about:config, prefs.js, anything to
>> fix this mess. Please help.
>
> Did you delete all the passwords for these calendars in TB's password
> manager and restart TB?

Password manager doesn't list *any* passwords for my calendars. I heard
elsewhere in this newsgroup that Google has changed the APIs and Philipp
Kewisch is working on a fix.

>> BTW: Now there's an additional new problem:
>> Lightning is now messing up the order that it lists my calendars in the
>> left panel of the main UI. When I fix the order, it's messed up again
>> after a restart of Thunderbird.
>
> Just drag and drop the calender where you want to have them.

I already covered that when I said "When I fix the order..."

I guess we'll have to wait for a fix.

[Thomas Boehm]

Peter Lairo wrote:

> Another reason I
> already stated in my OP: "I would *really* like to avoid re-installing
> all 16(!) of my calendars."

Just take the 10 to 20 minutes it takes to get all the calendar details
and putting them into TB. It's now almost 2 weeks since you have this
problem. I think this time would be well spend...

YMMV

[kiver...@gmail.com]

Read through these. There is now a Google Calendar add on that gives you a tab directly to your Google Cal. I trashed Lightning since it just started doing the login thing to me. Keeps asking for password.

[gpho...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 12:00:33 AM UTC-4, kiver...@gmail.com wrote:
> Read through these. There is now a Google Calendar add on that gives you a tab directly to your Google Cal. I trashed Lightning since it just started doing the login thing to me. Keeps asking for password.

For me, Lightning is required as it's the only addon I know that recognizes and shows .ics Calendar invitation requests. Without Lightning, TB doesn't even show the attachment.

I anyone else have an addon that will recognize .ics files so I can dump Lightning, that would be great as well. I can save the .ics file and open iCalendar to add the event. Right now, I don't use Google calendar, don't trust them with my personal info, I use Yahoo Calendar and it still not only doesn't remember the password but won't even take it. And I know it's the right one and type it very slowly.