Closed Bug 381873 Opened 17 years ago Closed 14 years ago

outgoing SMTP auth when using SSL does not verify if username/password is valid or not

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Security, defect)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Security
Version:
1.8 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: sad, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070310 Firefox/1.5 (Debian-2.0.0.3-1)
Build Identifier: 1.5.0.10 (20070329)

when selecting outgoing smtp auth using  SSL when a username and password is specified (but this info is not really correct), thunderbird doesn't prompt with an error silently but silently sends null values.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Version: unspecified → 1.5
Product: Core → MailNews Core
Assignee: dveditz → nobody
Component: Security → MailNews: Security
Product: Thunderbird → Core
QA Contact: thunderbird → security
Version: 1.5 → 1.8 Branch
Whiteboard: dupeme
Looks a lot like bug 73693 comment #0.

Sujay, how do you know that thunderbird sends null values ? Could you reproduce the issue with a recent build (something like thunderbird 3.0b2) and follow the instructions at https://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:Logging and provide us with a smtp log ?
no resopnse, so incomplete
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
Whiteboard: dupeme
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