Closed Bug 129457 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

% (percent) or @ in user name makes mozilla refuse handle account

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
MailNews: Account Configuration
Platform:
x86
All
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 129539

People

(Reporter: fredrik.wendt, Assigned: racham)

References

Details

(Keywords: regression)

From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020306 BuildID: 2002030621 Because of no obviouse reason, Mozilla refuses to "Get New Messages". I changed some accounts to collect mail at startup and suddenly, I can't get it to even connect to the mail server of one of the accounts (the first (top-most) in the list). Even the dialog box asking me to fill in the password for the account doesn't pop! Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Steps to Reproduce: Since I can't get it to fetch mail, I'm not able to make it not fetch mail again... I really don't know what to supply for anyone to be able to properly debug this/search for the source of this error. I'll provide whats' needed.
As i needed the mail that arrived on the account, I was forced to take action. I've now deleted the account (backing up the mailfolders from ~/.mozilla...). While creating a new account, I got the same problem, until I tried out putting in a different user name. Problem: If the username that's used to log in to the mail server contains a % (percent) character, mozilla freaks out. Workaround: Add the account with a bogus username. After the account's been created, go change the username in the account's settings. (Mozilla build ID: 2002030621) Note: This problem arose a couple of days ago (at max three days) when I downloaded a new nightly build, so I'd bet changes made to the account-handling code introduced this bug. (Previous summary: doesn't even connect to server anymore)
Summary: doesn't even connect to server anymore → percent character in user name makes mozilla refuse handle account
This is very bad because servers with virtual hosts like IMail may require the % sign.
Keywords: regression
Probably the account manager thinks that the % means the start of an escaped character. Can you try to replace the % in the user name with %25 and see what happens?
This appears to be a duplicate of bug# 111478?
*** Bug 129676 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
After upgrading to "Mozilla 0.9.9+ Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020307", I'm now unable to get mails from pop3 accounts with user names of the form "user@x.com". Accounts with plain user names (i.e: "john", "smith", etc) works fine... I'm marking it as blocker since I'm now blocked... :( This bug may not be duplicate of bug# 111478 since 0.9.8 was working fine. Upgrading to 0.9.9+ screwed things up... Inclusion of @ in account name is not the problem, since I have others accounts with @ (but with plain user names) working without problems...
It actually appears to be a duplicate of bug# 129396 which references problems with the User Name using special characters such as "@".
*** Bug 129541 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 129842 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I can't reproduce this on the 0.9.9 branch, with usernames of "test@here", "test%here" and "test#here" (the account wizard let me create the accounts, and I could read and delete mail as well). If you can reproduce it with a very recent 0.9.9-branch build, please indicate platform and build ID.
new based on the dupes...
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
I think this is trunk only problem, I think it sneaked in whith the 20020307 build, and my last trunk build before that was 20020303. I just downloaded a branchbuild and dont see the problem I have with a trunk build
cc darin, in case it turns out to be some recent changes by him.
See duped bug 129541. This bug was introduced in 20020306 trunk builds. This happens on windows as well, OS - All.
OS: Linux → All
this might be dupe of bug 129539 which was fixed on 3/8... can someone please test this bug against a 3/9 or later build? thx!
Yes, that seems to be it. Worksforme in 20020311 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 129539 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Verified duplicate.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Summary: percent character in user name makes mozilla refuse handle account → % (percent) or @ in user name makes mozilla refuse handle account
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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