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Bug 232125
Opened 21 years ago
Updated 2 years ago
add an option to skip some auth. methods to work around a problem with misconfigured POP3 server( "server does not accept proxy authentication command")
Categories
(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, enhancement)
MailNews Core
Networking: POP
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(Not tracked)
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(Reporter: dhunterz, Unassigned)
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(2 files)
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 When I connect pop3://nate.com , (It based www.nate.com, it is only korean page), received only [ Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server nate.com responded: server does not accept proxy authentication command ]. but I don't use proxy ( I know, maybe it use ISP?). When I exam telnet connection port 110, I can read list. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add account [nate.com] 2. Click Get new messages, and Input my password. 3. Received error message. see details or summary. Actual Results: Cannot recevied anything. Expected Results: nothing. WXP Home KR, IBM R40 2681C7K, Home high-speed network.
Comment 1•21 years ago
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Please provide a pop3 log : http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html
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Comment 2•21 years ago
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It check many other encycript auth... what means? I can access only user and pass.
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Comment 3•21 years ago
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Comment on attachment 139954 [details]
nate.com pop-3 access log
Ah.... before [ 0[2d3eb0]: Entering NET_ProcessPop3 101 ] is other mail
service. don't mind it.
Comment 4•21 years ago
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Do you have some non-ASCII characters in your username or password ? (cc ch.ey@gmx.net for help)
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Comment 5•21 years ago
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No, I use only ASCII alphabet and number.
Comment 6•21 years ago
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Park, besides the plain text USER/PASS login mechanism some other authentication mechanisms exist. Your server supports PLAIN, CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5. We know the first two of them and start trying with the most secure (PLAIN in this case, CRAM-MD5 if you check "use secure authentication" in the server config) and fall back to a less secure (USER/PASS in this case). Your server makes it impossible for us to fall back to USER/PASS and try it this way because it disconnects after a "wrong login" what is very bad behaviour. While I know many servers with wrong configurated CRAM-MD5 authentication it's new to me to see a wrong configured PLAIN authentication. Unfortunately the user can't force Mozilla to use USER/PASS only. But I suggest you to check "use secure authentication" and try again.
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Comment 7•21 years ago
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I was it, but I cannot receive list. ... I don't know what can I doing.
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Comment 8•21 years ago
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I want fix it, and change my password and open here. user dhunter pass formozdev It doesn't serve SMTP, and I think ,any trouble makes. It only able Jan. I want your fix~
Comment 9•21 years ago
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Ok, now after a few general problems with the PW, I managed it to log in the server with USER/PASS. This works via telnet, KMail, The Bat and Mozilla (modified to only use USER/PASS). But the server doesn't work with PLAIN, CRAM-MDR, DIGEST-MD5 or APOP using any program (or telnet). That's a clear evidence for a misconfigured/malfunctioning server. But it's another incident that should make us think about options to enable/disable specific mechanisms by the user.
Comment 10•21 years ago
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I got the following greeting from mail.nate.com. +OK POP3 server ready (7.0.024) <FBE15F6E04664FE8E7293180BD967530CDAC6EBC@wm-proxy2.natemail.com> The versioning scheme seems to be that of Microsoft, but I'm not sure. Without the ID of the POP3 server, it's all but impossible to advise the server administrator as to how to fix the problem in the server.... I'm changing this bug to an enhencement request.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Windows XP → All
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: pop3 say "server does not accept proxy authentication command", but i don't use proxy. → add an option to skip some auth. methods to work around a problem with misconfigured POP3 server( "server does not accept proxy authentication command")
Comment 11•21 years ago
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When using option to allow/disallow authentication mechanisms the best would be an or'able bitfield like internally used (http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/mailnews/local/src/nsPop3Protocol.h#103 ff.) That's not easy to use when setting a pref manually, but IMHO the only choice when we want to be able to allow some mechanisms while disallow another, i.e. not only one at the same time. My standpoint is that server problems should be solved by the server admin, so I don't want to have a UI. That would lead to 1. people getting confused and 2. they could bypass the problem to fast before contacting the admin.
Comment 12•21 years ago
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I don't think we need to add UI here. Just adding a backend pref. entry would be sufficient if we ever decide to 'fix' this bug on our side. Either A or B would work. A. add boolean pref. entries as following: mail.pop3_auth.plain mail.pop3_auth.userpass mail.pop3_auth.md5cram B. mail.pop3_auth_methods: a list of strings Those unlucky users of broken POP3 servers can turn off all but userpass.
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: MailNews → Core
Comment 13•17 years ago
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sorry for the spam. making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs. filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.
Assignee: sspitzer → nobody
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Updated•16 years ago
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Product: Core → MailNews Core
Updated•2 years ago
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Severity: normal → S3
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