1919469 - When setting up an account, failure to connect to a port because of a certificate error is not reported to the console

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

During account set up, each failed attempt to connect to a port is reported on the console, e.g.:

test.test:110 socketType=0 pop3: [Exception... "Connection to test.test:110 failed" nsresult: "0x804b000d (NS_ERROR_CONNECTION_REFUSED)" location: "JS frame :: resource:///modules/accountcreation/GuessConfig.sys.mjs :: onStopRequest :: line 1247" data: no]

but this isn't true where an attempt fails because of a TLS certificate error. In that case, we do suggest the user can change a pref and ignore the bad certificate but that's only an info-level message and not shown with the default log level setting. There should be an exception thrown at this point so that the error handler reports the failure.

Comment 1

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

Attachment: Bug 1919469 - Throw an exception when a certificate error is encountered during account set-up. r=#thunderbird-reviewers

There's an exception thrown here for other types of connection errors. The error handler logs a
message to the console which can be useful for debugging setup errors.

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/d984fc1328b2
Throw an exception when a certificate error is encountered during account set-up. r=#thunderbird-reviewers