228127 - Secure authentication fails

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[Andrew E. Mileski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208

As of 1.6b release, secure authentication on my IMAPS server fails.  All
previous releases (example 1.6a) work fine.

Dialog: "You cannot log into mail.somedomain.com because you have enabled secure
authentication and this server does not support it. To log in, turn off secure
authentication for this account."

The server log contains: "Command stream end of file, while reading line
user=??? host=UNKNOWN"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Christian Eyrich]

And? Switching "secure authentication" off as the dialog writes doesn't help?
If not, please post a communications log (see
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html#imap for how to).

See bug 225809 for why you get this error.

Comment 2

[Chris Viklund]

Yes, switching off the Use Secure authentication makes it possible to read
e-mails again using IMAP.

Comment 3

[Christian Eyrich]

Ok, so marking it WFM. It's a little bit annoying, but reliably only performing
secure authentication when this option is checked improves security.

Comment 4

[Andrew E. Mileski]

The authentication problem coincides with:

Received: from isoar.ca (fujitsu.isoar.ca [192.168.2.254])
	(authenticated bits=0)
	by mail.isoar.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hBIBNs0I013027
	(version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL)
	for <[e-mail]>; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 06:24:00 -0500

Notice that "verify=FAIL" when in the past it was "OK".  I assume these two are
related as nothing on the server has changed.