230519 - unable to send mail using SSL over SMTP

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 219840

(MailNews Core :: Networking: SMTP, defect)

Description

[Matt DeVillier]

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

Having a problem attempting to send mail via Sun One Messaging server, SSL over
SMTP on port 25. When I try to send messages via SSL to the SMTP server, I get
the message "Sending of message failed. An error occurred sending mail: Unable
to connect to SMTP server xxx.xxx.xxx. Please verify that your Mail/News account
settings...".  Settings have been verfied as correct under Outgoing Server
(SMTP) Settings - server name, port (25), userid, SSL radio box checked.  Am
able to successfully send mail with same settings under Mozilla 1.5 (release). 
Diagnostics show that Mozilla 1.6b is sending a newline or empty command when it
should be sending "hello" message to initiate sending mail via SMTP.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. enable SSL for SMTP
2. attempt to send mail
3. wait for connection to time out

Actual Results:  
error msg returned as reported above

Expected Results:  
sent the mail successfully like 1.5 does

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 219840 ***