thunderbird / thunderbird/thunderbird-android
Better error handling when authentication fails
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type: enhancement
- Dominant language
- Kotlin
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Description
Not all failures to authenticate are "wrong username or password" errors. See e.g. #1990
If the server sends an alert text (IMAP) display that to the user.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading issue #1990 and tracing the IMAP authentication failure handling in the Android app. Identify where server alert text is received and how authentication errors are presented; done means server-supplied alert text is shown instead of always reporting wrong credentials.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- kotlin
- Domain
- authentication, mobile
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100