Closed Bug 533941 Opened 15 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Failures of "STARTTLS" are reported in a very bad way

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Networking: IMAP
Version:
1.9.1 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: u20230201, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091017 SUSE/2.0.0-1.1.3 SeaMonkey/2.0
Build Identifier: 

Thunderbird was reporting very stange errors about communicating with the IMAP server, so I debugged it:
Thunderbird says:
2 STARTTLS
Server reponds
2 BAD Unrecognized command


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Probably Enable TLS when the server can't do it

Actual Results:  
You cannot access your mail, a very strange error message is reported
like:
The current command was not successful. The Mail Server said "Unrecognized comand"
.

Expected Results:  
A better error message, like "The STARTLS command was not successful..."
Version: unspecified → 3.0
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: General → Networking: IMAP
Ever confirmed: true
Product: Thunderbird → MailNews Core
QA Contact: general → networking.imap
Version: 3.0 → 1.9.1 Branch
Does it also fail with a current version, or 60 from http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/channel/
Flags: needinfo?(Ulrich.Windl)
Whiteboard: [closeme 2018-05-15]
Sorry, I cannot check as all my servers do support STARTTLS at the moment.
Flags: needinfo?(Ulrich.Windl)
Resolved per whiteboard
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
Whiteboard: [closeme 2018-05-15]
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