129653 - Exchange IMAP server does not get the correct password

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[Harald Weis]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386)
BuildID:    2002020415

The password is a normal password: 6 ASCII characters.
It behaves as if the password were encrypted?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.launch `Mail & Newsgroups'
2.enter password in the `Mail Server Password Required' window
3.

Actual Results:  ``Alert: Login to server <hostname> failed''

Even after 4 consecutive alerts you do not get the chance to reenter the
password. OK, it wouldn't help anyway. 


Expected Results:  Mozilla should have ``seen'' the correct password
and allow access to the IMAP server

The same IMAP server works fine with
`Netscape: Version 4.79 [en]-20011017'

Comment 1

[Harald Weis]

Don't understand the setting `Severity: normal'.

I cannot use the MailNews component at all because of the bug.

Comment 2

[Harald Weis]

This bug is gone with build 2002031207 :)

Comment 3

[Jason Dufair]

May have been gone with 2002031207, but it is definitely happening with 2002032003

Comment 4

[Harald Weis]

True, it has come back with 2002032107 on FreeBSD 4.4.
Thus for me, the severity is "blocker"
and I'll go back to 2002031207 which works fine
except for the non-saving of paper size and print command.
:( 

Comment 5

[jit]

I have noticed same problem on linux with 2002032508

Comment 6

[Andrew Hagen]

Can someone with FreeBSD please confirm this bug? Is this bug limited to FreeBSD?

Comment 7

[Harald Weis]

Please note that this very ugly bug seems to come and go randomly with the
successive nightly builds for FreeBSD4.4,
e.g. on the present build 2002032707 it has disappeared.

Comment 8

[Andrew Hagen]

Maybe it's a error in the build process. Have you tried doing your own build?

Comment 9

[Harald Weis]

No,I haven't since I have discovered the nightly/latest builds.
Before, I used the linux-mozilla port which does not fetch the latest source
and which is taking 2 or 3 hours to build.

Comment 10

[Jesse Moorman]

Using W2K, Mozilla 20020311. I had my POP server (Earthlink aka igc.org)
repeatedly reject my password this afternoon. I then used Mozilla browser and
easily logged into my ISP account with same password, and then I could get my
email. I did not have any trouble with the password yesterday or this morning,
which were my initial experience with using Mozilla to receive mail. I don't
know when this can be reproduced. I don't find any similar bugs reported, except
this one.

(Until yesterday I'd been testing Mozilla basically in the installation stages,
having been practically blocked from using it for email {not absolute blocks,
but requiring too much effort and time for someone with my level of involvement}
by bugs in email and address book import utilities). Until I feel a little safe
with this build, I'm not going to mess with nightly builds.

Comment 11

[Harald Weis]

That's very interesting. So the bug does (randomly) occur on FreeBSD, Linux
_and_ Windows and not only for IMAP servers.
For the time being, I am too happy with my present build (see Comment#7).
If the bug comes back the next time, I'll follow Andrew's advice and try to do
my own build and report on this. But as my PC and my fingers ain't very fast I
prefer to wait for a good reason to install another nightly build :-)

Comment 12

[Brian Weir]

Platform: PC
OS: Windows 2000 SP1 Build 2195
Mozilla Build: 20020617

I am unable to duplicate this problem. Mozilla is able to authenticate against 
both POP and IMAP. 

Comment 13

[Ian Neal]

Is the bug that it doesn't let you re-enter your password or that even though
you have put the correct password in it is not authenticating you?

If it is the latter then this is probably a dupe of bug 79973

Comment 14

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Is this still happening?

pi

Comment 15

[Jason Dufair]

This seems to have been fixed.  I have not seen this in several releases.

Comment 16

[yulian chang]

I've been working Exchange IMAP server for a while using Trunk and Blackbird
Branch builds. It gets correct password without any problem.

Comment 17

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Ok, resolving this then
Resolving Worksforme per Comment 15,Comment 16