179762 - IMAP server with long name is not accessible when created at Mozilla startup

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 142043

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Chris Blackstone]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021112
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021112

Starting from an empty Mozilla Profile, I start Mozilla and open up Mail/News.
When I do that, I am asked for the email account information.
If I enter the server as tmail.arlington.k12.va.us, everything works correctly.
If , however, I enter the server name as teacher.mail.arlington.k12.va.us, The
server does not allow me to log in.

I'm guessing this is because the server name is getting truncated (admittedly,
teacher.mail.arlington.k12.va.us is very long)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create new profile
2. start Mozilla
3. Access Mail and News
4. Enter account information, with server name as teacher.mail.arlington.k12.va.us

Actual Results:  
I cannot log into teacher.mail.arlington.k12.va.us

Expected Results:  
Allow me to log into teacher.mail.arlington.k12.va.us

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

One of the many problems caused by the 32-character limit in Fizilla (a Carbon
build), which is used in Mac OS X and Mac OS 9. Chimera (a Mach-O build) should
be fine, but doesn't have a built-in mailer.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 142043 ***

Comment 2

[benc]

I recommend you keep this bug open in your component and mark it a depends of
the networking dupe.

Comment 3

[Vedran Miletic]

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