185631 - Auto-detection of SSL Support

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Security, enhancement)

Description

[Michael T. Babcock]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

From the preferences dialog, the user should be able to request that Mozilla do
a test connection to each normal (or user-specified) mail port to determine what
features are available.  For reference, fetchmail does a wonderful job of this
(see http://freshmeat.net/fetchmail).  It would then fill in the values
accordingly or ask the user to pick from the options now available to them.  The
options I'm thinking of include: 

IMAP TLS support (normally port 443)
IMAP STARTTLS support (normally port 143; RFC 2595 section 3)
POP3 TLS support (normally port 995)
POP3 STARTTLS support (normally port 110; RFC 2595 section 4)
SMTP TLS support (normally port 465)
SMTP AUTH support (normally port 25; RFC 2554)
SMTP STARTTLS support (normally port 25; RFC 2487)

... any others that seem relevant.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
N/A
Actual Results:  
N/A

Expected Results:  
N/A

Comment 1

[John Unruh]

Enhancement.

Comment 2

[Michael T. Babcock]

Bug 185662 filed to cover the additional prefs option (required?) to make this
meaningful.

Comment 3

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 4

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

fixed in form of new account creation wizard.