178311 - POP3 PASS command fails - but my password doesn't need changed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 160425

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, defect)

Description

[Steve Karg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

The PASS command for POP3 access can fail for a lot of reasons other than the
wrong password - the server could be busy, have too many logins, etc.  The
server usually replies with the details.  However, Mozilla displays a popup box
that demands me to acknowledge that the PASS command has failed, and then
requires me to enter a new password.  My password hasn't changed, and I wanted
this machine to grab e-mail all day and all night, and now it is stopped with a
dialog box.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use POP3 access on mail/news on 2 different PCs and access POP3 account that
only allows 1 login per account at a time.
2. Configure POP3 to check mail on a time interval or 'get messages' using both
PC's at the same time.
Actual Results:  
I get a dialog box that says PASS command failed.  After click OK, I get a box
to enter the new password.

Expected Results:  
It should log or place into inbox the results of failed PASS commands, rather
than stopping everything to tell me that PASS has failed, and then requiring me
to enter a new password (even though the old password is still fine).

I have this problem on PC's with Win95, Win98, and WinNT4.

Comment 1

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

Should be fixed as of 2002-09-18.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 160425 ***