127624 - Mail/News fails to prompt for POP server password on startup

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 127221

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, defect)

Description

[parish]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8+)
Gecko/20020224
BuildID:    2002-02-24-08

Every nightly since 2002-02-15-06 fails to show the Enter Password dialogue when
starting Mozilla. This means that clicking Get Messages results in an error,
"Could not connect to server <servername>: the connection was refused".

I have tried several nightlies since 2002-02-15-06 and all have shown this problem.

When installing a new nightly I have uninstalled the old one using Add/Remove
Programs, then deleted the remaining directories under Program Files to ensure a
completely clean install.

I have also tried creating a new profile but the problem still exists.

I see this problem on my work machine where the POP server is on the LAN. At
home (also W2K) I build Mozilla from source several times a week and have never
seen this problem. The POP server in this case is my ISP's accessed through a
dialup.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Uninstall Mozilla.
2. Install a new nightly (later than 2002-02-15-06)
3. Start Mozilla and Mail/News
4. The POP password dialogue will not appear
5. Click Get Messages, a "connection refused" message will appear

Another user has reported in n.p.m.mail-news seeing this problem. See later
posts in the thread "M/N crashes afew browsing a few new emails in recent
nightlies...."

Comment 1

[parish]

I should have mentioned that I can reinstall 2002-02-15-06 and it will *always*
work correctly both with the original user profile and with new profiles

Comment 2

[Navin Gupta]

Can you try installing mozilla in a new directory ? I have a few pop3 accts all
seem to be working!

Comment 3

[Navin Gupta]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 127221 ***

Comment 4

[Olga]

Verified dup.