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From: Rich Gray on 30 Jun 2010 22:49
Wes Groleau wrote:
> On 06-30-2010 13:15, Rich Gray wrote:
>> Try again. Mozilla mail news clients are notorious for getting
>> some sort of login error, reprompting the user for name/password,
>> allowing the user to mistype what was correct info. Username is
>> not reprompted and the user is stuck as you are.
>
> And this would mess him up on a server that does not ask for a password?

Possibly, if one incorrectly entered the username. (I'm
really not sure...)

- Rich
From: Rich Gray on 30 Jun 2010 23:41
Robert M. wrote:
> On Jun 30, 10:15 am, Rich Gray<devn...(a)nowhere.invalid> wrote:
>> Robert M. wrote:
>>> Seamonkey today stopped allowing access to newsgroups' messages'
>>> contents.
>>
>>> I can see the newsgroups' message titles, but I can't open the
>>> messages.
>>
>>> When I click on a message title, a popup window pops up, saying, "News
>>> server password required."
>>
>>> When I type a password, another message says, "A news NNTP error
>>> occurred. Authentication failed."
>>
>> Try going to Tools> Password Manager> Manage Stored Passwords
>>
>> Find the entries like
>>
>> news://news.example.com (news://news.example.com/#username) and
>> news://news.example.com (news://news.example.com/#password)
>>
>> and delete them.
>>
>> Try again. Mozilla mail news clients are notorious for getting
>> some sort of login error, reprompting the user for name/password,
>> allowing the user to mistype what was correct info. Username is
>> not reprompted and the user is stuck as you are.
>>
>> - Rich
>
> Thanks, Rich and Wes.
>
> I deleted all of the stored passwords, but I still can't access the
> newsgroups.

OK, I'm baffled. Time for some questions:

* you also deleted the #username line too, right?

* you are getting prompted for a password, but not user name??

* Do you have more than one news account defined?

* What are your server settings for the news account?
- port
- Connection security
- Always request authentication when connecting to this server

* What version of SeaMonkey are you running? (2.0.5 was just
released.)

* This is a news account provided by your ISP?

* If so, can you perhaps share the identity of your ISP?

* Otherwise, can you share the name of the news provider?


- Rich
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