161902 - Could not connect to server xxx.xxx.xx; the connection was refused

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 121926

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, defect)

Description

[Daniel Neves]

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

When I try to get email messages, this message appears:
"Could not connect to server xxx.xxx.xx; the connection was refused"

Most probably, the connection was refused because it didn't ask me the password
for this account, and I can't manage to find where this "option" should be
chosen (in the general Preferences or the "Account preferences"...

What I find really confusing is that I have been working perfectly with this
version of Mozilla (1.0) in my notebook (running SuSE 7.2) and now that I am
configuring it on another machine (running SuSE 8.0), it doesn't work!

A colleage of mine (also running SuSE 8.0) has also had the same problem... and
the only thing that we have in common is SuSE 8.0 (?!?)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create mail account (through wizard)
2. Try to fetch mail (get messages) - DOESN'T ASK PASSWORD!
3. After a while, message appears: "Could not connect to server xxx.xxx.xx; the
connection was refused"

Actual Results:  3. After a while, message appears: "Could not connect to server
xxx.xxx.xx; the connection was refused"

And. obviously, the mail isn't fetched :(

Expected Results:  errr... I don't understand why it doesn't ask me for the
password.


I would really like to use Mozilla has my email client, so I would appreciate if
you could give me feedback on this.

Thanks for your attention, guys! ;-)

Keep on the good work :D

Best regards,
Daniel Neves

Comment 1

[Olav Vitters]

Do you use a (socks) proxy? Please add the mailservers name to
Preferences->Advanced->Proxies->No Proxy for.

Comment 2

[Sheela Ravindran]

This is actually a dup of bug 121926.  
Reporter,
This problem has been fixed. You have to download a newer build to get rid of
this problem. 

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

Comment 3

[Sheela Ravindran]

vrfy dup