111747 - crash if I set the user name to "[e-mail]" instead of just "name"

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, defect)

Description

[Cosmn Negulescu]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120
BuildID:    2001112012

Mozilla crashes if I set the user name to [e-mail], on the mail sever
pop.broadband.rogers.com. rogers.com is moving away from @home. My old address
used to work fine with just "name" instead of "[e-mail]", but rogers.com
requires the full "[e-mail]". 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.create new mail profile
2.input all the data up to the user name (name, email address, pop server, etc)
3.try and input "[e-mail]"  (instead of the usual "name")
4.click ok
5.get warning about changed settings
6.click ok on the warning box (ok is the only option)

Actual Results:  Mozilla crashed. It became unresponsive, even after waiting 10
mins for it to do something. Could not close the windows, only kill -9 worked.

Expected Results:  should have accepted the settings or return an error at least.

Well, I can see why mozilla gets confuzed, because it gets two @'s in the
address. I'm guessing [e-mail]@pop.broadband.rogers.com
Unfortunately, they are my ISP, and this is what they require, and I'm stumped.
I can't get to my mail on their server.

Comment 1

[charles]

The behaviour is the same on Windows 2000.  Mozilla hangs.

Comment 2

[Sheela Ravindran]

reporter,
Try a latest build.  I have a gmx account which requires user name to be 
[e-mail] instead of just foo.  But I did not crash after setting up this 
account. However, I was not able to send a message untill I went into accounts 
and settings|outgoing smtp server and by adding [e-mail] in the username 
field and I was able to get this account working for sending messages.  

Comment 3

[Sheela Ravindran]

Reporters comments via email:

Yup. That did it for me too. I'm using build id 2001112913, and it works like a 
charm. No crashes, no errors, no major problems. And most of all, the email 
works just the way I need it to.

Thanks for fixing my major email problem,

Cosmin


Based on above comments marking this bug as worksforme.

Comment 4

[Sheela Ravindran]

verified as worksforme