152559 - POP3 authentication failure returns no error message

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 121926

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Huw Lynes]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529
BuildID:    2002052918

I converted a NS4.7 profile to mozilla1. THe first time I tried to download mail
I got the dialog box asking for passwd. If I enter an invalid passwd all that
happens is that the dialog reapears. However if I check the "remember passwd"
checkbox it never reappears even though the passwd is invalid. The mail client
will keep trying to log into the pop sever until the pop server kicks it off for
misbehaving.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Convert an NS4.7 profile to mozilla
2.Try and retrieve mail
3.Enter an invalid password and check the "remember passwd" checkbox.


Actual Results:  Mozilla repeatedly tries to log in to the mail server and fails
due to the invalid password.

Expected Results:  Mozilla should return a dialog box saying that authentication
failed and ask for a new passwd. Otherwise the mail server will become swamped
with log-in attempts.

Exerpt from /var/log/messages of the mail server. Shows mozilla repeatedly
trying to log-in and failing.

Jun 18 12:37:01 carole ipop3d[30791]: AUTHENTICATE LOGIN failure
host=wingnut.mpc.local
Jun 18 12:37:13 carole ipop3d[30791]: Excessive login attempts user=cricket
host=wingnut.mpc.local
#the above entries reapeat over and over again

Comment 1

[Sheela Ravindran]

reassign to naving

Comment 2

[Sheela Ravindran]

confirming because this is the current behavior.  We do not show the invalid 
login dialog when you have the biff settings on.  But we do show the invalid 
login dialog when user manually clicks on get message button.  
If you don't want to retry just click on cancel dismiss the password dialog.  

Try to uncheck "check new mail at startup", Check for new messages every x 
minutes".
Click on get message. At the password prompt enter invalid password. The we show 
this dialog" The Pass command did not succeed. Mail server nsmail-2 responded. 
Invalid login.  OK button.

Comment 3

[Sheela Ravindran]

This bug is a dup of bug 121926.
Bug 121926 has been fixed.  So please download a build after 06-02 and try again.
This is working on commercial branch for pop accounts.   

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121926 ***

Comment 4

[Huw Lynes]

Have just checked Mozilla1.1a and this bug has definately been fixed in that.
Moz1.1a behaves sensibly in that it pops up a authentication failure dialog.

Thanks
Huw

Comment 5

[Sheela Ravindran]

vrfy dup