Closed Bug 357648 Opened 18 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Security error for Thunderbird calls a mail server a "web site"

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Mail Window Front End
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: palfrey, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060821 BonEcho/2.0b2 (Debian-1.99+2.0b2+dfsg-1)
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.5.0.7 (20060927)

The "Security error: domain name mismatch" dialog in thunderbird has the following sentence fragment "someone may be trying to intercept your communication with this web site". It's not a web site, it's a mail server. All dialogs of this form in Thunderbird refer to mail servers...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attempt to login to a server with a bad SSL certificate
Assignee: mscott → nobody
WFM
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081031 Shredder/3.0b1pre
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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