140847 - Socks proxy causes POP3 and SMTP mail to fail

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Aleksey Dynin]

Could not connect to server ...;the connectionwas refused.
For download mail and news

I'm look this message look on 0.99;1.0rc relise if
prefrences->advanced->Proxies set as "manual proxy configuration" ...

if set as "Direct connectin"  - Ok

In the 0.97 - not this bug

Comment 1

[Uwe Koloska]

for me this problem occured since 0.9.9 so I stayed with 0.9.8 (where all works
fine) since now where I find this problem report and a nicer solution than
disabling all proxy support.

I'm behind a masquerading server that works as a proxy based on squid (but I'm
not sure wether all proxies are activated).

When the Sock-proxy is activated, mozilla is'nt able to connect to the pop3
server nor is he able to connect to the SMTP server.  The failing pop3
connection gives the mentioned error message but the SMTP connection has to
manually canceled (waited for mor than a minute).

Leaving the Socks line _and_ the port blank enables connection to pop3 and smtp
again. If server address and/or port have some value (real address and real
port) the connections failed.

Hope this helps in examining the problem.

Comment 2

[Balazs]

I was running 0.9.7, it worked fine, but when I tried RC1 it showed up for the
first time, and it's the same with 1.0
when I enter an IP (e.g. 192.168.10.1) as the pop3 server name, it says "Could
not connect to server ...;the connectionwas refused."
this only occours when I use manual proxy settings, it works fine with direct
connection

workaround: define the IP as a host in your hosts-file, and enter the hostname
as the pop3 server

Comment 3

[Neil Katz]

I am having the same problem with version 1.1. Starting Mozilla does not start 
my Win XP Dial Up connection, and I still get the refusal to connect after 
starting the connection manuually and connecting to the internet. I also get 
failure to connect messages int he e-mail client, but the mail is downloaded 
anyway.

Comment 4

[Daniel Stuart Kelly]

Same problem here.. Removing the socks entry for the proxy resolved it.

Mozilla ver 1.0.1
OS: Red Hat linux 7.3

Comment 5

[Daniel Neves]

Hi there,

Well I had this same problem, but I managed to get thinks working, finally ;-)
(I was unable to download my POP3 e-mail, because it didn't ask me the password)

I saw in previous sugestions that it was proposed to set "Direct Connection" in
the Proxy configuration, but unfortunatly, I HAVE TO use a proxy connection to
the internet. So, I left the proxy information and added my mailserver's address
to the "No proxy for:" field in the Preferences->Advanced->Proxies and it worked
just fine :D
I was asked for my password and my email was downloaded.


Hope I could help somebody with this.

Best regards,
Daniel Neves

Comment 6

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

This bug is sort of hard to understand, though comment 1 helps. I would suggest
that:

0) This bug is five or ten different bugs. It needs to be just one bug. The main
one sounds like a SOCKS problem, so go with that.

1) Everybody look at bug 160629 to make sure that your problem isn't the same.

2) There have been some SOCKS fixes recently -- try downloading a recent nightly
build and see if the problem still happens.

3) Could one of the commenters (or the reporter) please read the Bug Writing
Guidelines at <http://www.mozilla.org/quality/bug-writing-guidelines.html> and
then try using the guided form to report this bug again in a more clear fashion.

The guided entry form can be found at
<http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided>  

Thanks for all of your help in testing Mozilla!

-M