111478 - @ sign in pop3 username freezes client indefinitely

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Thomas Kho]

I have a shared hosting account at www.bsdwebhosting.net and the usernames
follow the form [e-mail] for both ssh and mail, so checking mail involves
setting the username to [e-mail].

Using 0.9.6, if I enter an username under 'Server Settings' with the @ sign and
hit 'ok', all mozilla windows grey out and become unresponsive.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Please take a look at the release notes.  If your username includes an "@" you
need to set a preference to allow "@" in usernames.

That said, we should not be hanging here...

Comment 2

[Ninoschka Baca]

Commercial trunk build 2001-12-13-03: WinMe
In the Account Wizard I configured for a POP account and enetered a username
with an "@" sign and it did not freeze. 

Comment 3

[Keith Bannister]

Also happens with # character in linux.

Comment 4

[Keith Bannister]

Sorry, I didn't write before.

I access my pop3 main through a proxy server. To pipe through this particular
proxy, you need to specify the username as user#pop3.server. This is why I care.

Comment 5

[esther]

Using build 20020301 on winxp, I found some flakieness while testing this.  Not
sure what's happening.  I got into a state where I freeze at the 3-pane mail
window, after switching back and forth in the user name field several times with
exit and relaunch being successful at first. Note, I Also adding the pref to
accept "@" in user name.  The profile is now unusable.  I need to investigate
more.  

Comment 6

[esther]

I don't see the hang using the original steps.  As noted above, I am seeing some
flakiness when changing user name in Account Settings several times.  Since we
are not hanging or freezing (the freeze I saw was due to a corrupt account due
to the changing of the user name many times, but can't be reproduced), this
should be minused and more testing done and new bugs logged for the flaky
behavior. Also note the user name with the # did not hang or freeze the app
either.  

Comment 7

[Ninoschka Baca]

Trunk build 2002-03-06: WinMe
I didn't experience a hang but saw other problems with characters such as "@" 
which are logged in bug# 129396.

Comment 8

[Fredrik Wendt]

In bug 129457 I've ran into a similar (the same?) problem. When entering % in a
username *while creating the account*, mozilla refuses to connect to the server.
It doesn't even show the popup asking me to enter the password for the account.

However, If one enters a bogus username, finishes creation of the account and
afterwards open up the account settings and change the username to the real one,
it works.

Comment 9

[saari (gone)]

ADT Need info.: what are the bugs you filed based on comment number 6?

Comment 10

[esther]

I asked Ninoschka to investigate and log a bug about the flakiness, she did and
logged bug 129396.  

Comment 11

[varada]

Bug 129396 has been resolved fixed and I do not see this problem in my builds.
So is this still a nsbeta1+ issue? IF so can someone give the steps to reproduce
the wierd behaviour.

Comment 12

[varada]

Taking bugs from bhuvan.

Comment 13

[Ninoschka Baca]

Trunk build 2002-03-26: WinMe
Cannot reproduce the problem with this build.
Marking Worksforme.

Comment 14

[Ninoschka Baca]

Verified Worksforme.