183014 - Mail doesn't ask for username and password when sending Email, required by mail server

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Mark Joyal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126

My mail server requires authentication to send email, I've set Mozilla Mail up
to ask for this information when I send mail, but it doesnt ask it just returns
an error from the server that Authentication is required.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Setup Mail to ask for Authentication
2. Attempt to send mail through secure server
3.

Actual Results:  
Failure to send email, Error message from mail server "Authentication Required".

Expected Results:  
Prompted for a username / password

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, what was the error message from the server ? And what type of server
is it :

- SMTP with AUTH-LOGIN (see bug 170872 comment 2)
- POP before SMTP (see bug 81387)

Comment 2

[Chris Lyon]

->Mailnews

Comment 3

[Mark Joyal]

Error from server was only : "Authentication Required"
Mail Server was MDeamon Pro version 6

Comment 4

[Dr. Fabrizio M. Facchini]

Attachment: mail server password unprompted

unable to use Mozilla mail

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Mark, can you still reproduce this with a current nightly build or Mozilla 1.6? 

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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