185968 - hang if ssl (secure connection) is enabled, and server does not support ssl

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Networking: SMTP, defect)

Description

[Stephen McCarthy]

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

Mozilla will freeze if the option to use ssl when sending mail is enabled and
the server does not support ssl.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.choose an outgoing server that does not support an outgoing secure connection
2.Go to Edit>Mail&News Accout Settings>Outgoing Sever(SMTP)
3.On the option "Use Secure Connection(SSL) choose either 'always' or 'when
available'
4.Attempt to send a test emil

Actual Results:  
Mozzila Freezes, and CPU usage jumps to 100%. Mozilla must be killed to exit out
of it.

Expected Results:  
A message should pop up that says that the server does no support ssl.

Comment 1

[Andrew Hagen]

Reporter, can you reproduce this on Mozilla 1.3 beta or later?

Comment 2

[Stephen McCarthy]

Yes, I repeated the steps on 1.3 beta, and I got the same results.

Comment 3

[Diethelm Schneider]

For me this bug is new in mozilla 1.3b. (win 98SE)

I youse mozilla as email-client for a long time, with email-accounts which use
sssl and other which don't. Up to mozilla 1.3a there occured no problems, even
using NAV. Only now with mozilla 1.3b after clicking 'Send unsent Emails' there
is an Alert:
Email-checking programm: Email-account found that uses ssl. See 'Help' for
learning how to get Emails with ssl.

After this Alert the hole mozilla-application is frozen.

Comment 4

[Rick Johnson]

confirmed on 1.3 Final on server that *does* support SSL. SMTP server is 
sendmail, and valid SSL Certificate is installed.

Comment 5

[Rick Johnson]

Discovered that having Norton Antivirus outbound SMTP scanning is enabled, 
Mozilla will hang since NAV doesn't appear to handle the TLS stream properly. 
Confirmed when using other mail clients with SSL as well.

Disabling outbound scanning allows SSL based SMTP to function properly.

Comment 6

[Henrik Gemal]

*** Bug 176005 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Ray Booysen]

Build: 2003100804
Windows XP

Reporter, have you tried a newer build. The above build that I use does not hang.

Comment 8

[Stephen McCarthy]

Using Mozilla 1.4 on Windows XP, it appears that this bug is fixed. Mozilla no
longer hangs for me.

Comment 9

[Ray Booysen]

Reporter can you then mark this bug as invalid?

Thanks

Comment 10

[Stephen McCarthy]

Bug has been fixed since it was reported. Marking invalid.