180130 - using advanced smtp breaks something, and sending a mail hangs mozilla

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 178659

(MailNews Core :: Networking: SMTP, defect)

Description

[alejo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021108
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021108

I have 2 mail accounts with different smtp servers.
ONCE I used the advanced dialog to have both smtps and just change the default
setting each time i sent a msg (instead of typing the smtp host name)

While seeing buggy entries on the advanced smtp dialog (entries without name,
multiple entries for the same smtp) I stopped using it, erased all entries,
and started changing the smtp text box typing.

After a few days of doing this, on the accountsettings/smtp, there is no smtp
text box and the advance button doesn't bring the advanced smtp dialog.
When mail is sent, the whole mozilla freezes (and it starts to eat up memory
like crazy, cpu 100%, WindowsXP warns of los virtual memory, etc)

After reinstalling (a nightly build) all went back to normal, but now it
happens again...

If there's anything missing here on info, I'd be happy to answer.

Thanks in advance!

Alejo

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use advanced smtp dialog, with 2 different smtp servers
2. change them all the time
3. you'll start seeing bogus entries on advanced smtp dialog, and then no
textbox and the advanced button doesn't bring the dialog box

Actual Results:  
crash

Expected Results:  
send the mail

Comment 1

[alejo]

changing this line
user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtp5.hostname", "smtp.blah.net");
to
user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtp5.hostname", "");

seems to fix the problem...

Comment 2

[esnible]

I'm seeing the same problem and I only have two accounts.  Mozilla 1.2.1, Linux.
 I wasn't able to fix it with the preference edit you suggest.

Comment 3

[esnible]

My problem may not have been a mail/news problem.  When I went to download a new
Mozilla I got the same crash 100% CPU when Mozilla tried to bring up the "save
as" dialog.  Perhaps the problem was in the dialog handling code?  Switching to
1.0.2 fixed the problem.

Comment 4

[Andrew Hagen]

The original report describes a hang, not a crash.

Reporter, please upgrade to the latest nightly trunk build. Does that solve the
problem?

Comment 5

[Andrew Hagen]

Okay, bogus SMTP server entries in prefs.js.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 178659 ***