save log in email details?

[nuevo]

hi there
Can someone please tell mw how to get my pc to save my (idnet) email log in and passward details.  The save/remember option does not appear and I cannot find any option in the idnet email site.
I use Windows XP.
Thanks

[Rik]

Hi Nuevo

Do you mean for webmail? In which case you can't do it. If not webmail, could you tell me exactly where the problem is?

[nuevo]

It's just my personal email with idnet.
Thanks

[Rik]

How are you accessing it?

[nuevo]

I saved the IDNet Webmail - Welcome to IDNet Webmail page with the username and password login box.
Thanks

[Rik]

As I said, you can't save the webmail login, for security reasons. You'd be better off using an email client if you can.

[Glenn]

  nuevo

[nuevo]

Apologies for the (daft) question but by email client do you mean Thunderbird (for Firefox) or Outlook (for IE)?
Thanks again

[Glenn]

Yes, if you download them what do you use?

[Rik]

Yes, or Windows Live Mail if you're running Vista or Windows 7. The email clients are not tied to the browser, though, I use Firefox and Outlook, for example.

[nuevo]

I use mainly Firefox and will set up either Outlook or Thunderbird.
Thanks for the help.

[Ray]

 

[Simon]

What browser are you using Nuevo?  In Firefox or SeaMonkey, you can store your webmail log in, in the Password Manager.  If it won't ask if you want it to remember it, it may already be there (check Password Manager), it may be in the Passwords Never Saved list, or Password Manager may not be enabled.  I have 5 IDNet email accounts, all of which are accessible via webmail, and all of which are remembered by Firefox / SeaMonkey.

[Rik]

Odd that, Simon, I've never been able to get it to store passwords, and have assumed it's a security measure. It's not already there and it's not in the never saved list...

[Simon]

I can't answer how, Rik, but I have the whole list of logins offered when I visit webmail.

[Rik]

Curious, I do for my portal logins, but not the new webmail, only the old.

[Ray]

There's something different about the webmail, Rik, normally FF asks on other sites if I want to save the password but it never does on the Idnet webmail login.

[Rik]

That's my experience, Ray. It's like a bank login.

[Simon]

I'll check again later, but I'm sure mine does.

[JB]

This article may be of interest. The edit worked for me last time I tried it.

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/08/16/fix-firefox-does-not-save-store-or-remember-password-on-some-sites-permanently-for-always-auto-complete/

I think you need to re-do the mod each time Firefox is upgraded.

Edit: It's line 812 in my Firefox 3.5.7 on WinXP.

[Rik]

I'll check again later, but I'm sure mine does.

What version are you running and have you got any external password manager running, Simon. Brian and I have just tested with 5 browsers and none of them offer to save the login details. This would make sense, as people might access webmail from a 'net cafe etc.

[Rik]

This article may be of interest. The edit worked for me last time I tried it.

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/08/16/fix-firefox-does-not-save-store-or-remember-password-on-some-sites-permanently-for-always-auto-complete/

I think you need to re-do the mod each time Firefox is upgraded.

Edit: It's line 812 in my Firefox 3.5.7 on WinXP.

Thanks, JB, that almost certainly explains what is happening, if not why it works for Simon.

[Simon]

I haven't done any mods, and don't forget, my primary browser is Sea Monkey.  Have you tried it in that?

[Rik]

No...

[Simon]

I'm struggling to think of the five you did test, then!

[Rik]

Safari, Chrome, IE7, IE8 and FF.

[Simon]

Why does everyone ignore Sea Monkey? 

[Rik]

We're sensible. 

[Simon]

Well, at least it stores passwords. 

[Rik]

Though some you don't want stored...

[Steve]

Don't like saving passwords I'd never remember them that way

[Rik]

I do a lot of guessing at times.

[JB]

Thanks, JB, that almost certainly explains what is happening, if not why it works for Simon.

I seem to recall that passwords that were stored some time ago (before certain websites 'instructed' browsers not to) were unaffected. For example, my PayPal password continued to be automatically entered by my browser until a month or so ago when I changed it. Now I need to enter my password every time.

I'll try the edit to that .js file and see if it remembers it again.

[Simon]

I can confirm that SeaMonkey has stored my username and password for one of my IDNet accounts, using webmail, but it now seems to have 'forgotten' the others.  I wonder if it's now because there's no option to use the unsecure login?

[JB]

Simon,

I can confirm that using Firefox on WinXP and after making the changes to the javascript file, my browser now offers to remember passwords for all sites. Even the ones it didn't two days ago.

Whether this is a good thing is another matter 

I don't know if a similar file exists for SeaMonkey?

[Simon]

It probably does, Paul.

[JB]

Paul ??

[Rik]

That's close for Simon's phone, JB. 

[Ray]

 

[Simon]

Sorry, JB. 

[JB]

NP, but I think you did it once before !!

Must have me on a secret database 

[Rik]

We have everyone on that secret database, JB.

[Simon]