178659 - bogus SMTP server entries in prefs.js cause hang

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: SMTP, defect)

Description

[Andrew E. Mileski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

Seen this several times.  Found an apparent solution this time though.

Clicking "Send" would cause Mozilla to lockup.  Opening the Advanced options
unde r SMTP would also, as a few other things.

Solution:  this shouldn't work in my non-mozilla programmer humble opinion, but
it does ... edited prefs.js

Changed
  user_pref("mail.smtpservers", "smtp1,smtp3");
To
  user_pref("mail.smtpservers", "smtp1,smtp2");
Changed:
  user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtp3.*
To:
  user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtp2.*






Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Andrew Hagen]

First, please upgrade to Mozilla 1.3 beta or later.

Second, if you delete all your SMTP servers, close Mozilla, then recreate the
SMTP servers, do you get the same problem?

Comment 2

[Andrew Hagen]

Confirming on basis of duplicate... (next)

Comment 3

[Andrew Hagen]

*** Bug 180130 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Andrew E. Mileski]

I've not had this recently.  It seems to have been related to the XUL file bugs.

I'm marking it as RESOLVED and WORKSFORME, though multiple SMTP servers still
appear when they shouldn't  ... but that should be another bug entry.