237146 - SMTP server list doesn't multiple instances of same server (with no username, diff't ports/other parameters)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Neil Weisenfeld]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (20040208)

If I enter two potential SMTP servers, each with the same hostname, but
different ports, then both do not appear on the SMTP tab.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.create two SMTP servers with the same host name, but different ports -- say
one SSL and one regular port 25.
2.Go to one account "Server settings" under account settings and select
Advanced... and then the SMTP tab
3.

Actual Results:  
See list of SMTP servers that only includes one of the "duplicates"

Expected Results:  
The duplicates are not really duplicates (they have different port #'s) and
therefore should both be displayed.

If people have a philosophical problem with this, then the user should be
allowed to add the second copy of the same server, in the first place.

Certainly the server entry and server selection procedures should follow the
same rules of conduct.

Comment 1

[Michel Meyers]

I can confirm this bug in Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (20040207)

(I've got 2 SMTP servers 'localhost:125' and 'localhost:32025' and only the 125
one shows in the drop down list)

Comment 2

[Ralf Hauser]

see also bug 234456 and bug 158099

Comment 3

[Ralf Hauser]

see also Bug 268762

Comment 4

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Neil Weisenfeld(bug opener) and Michel Meyers, "no username"(no SMTP auth) case?
If yes, does problem still remain on newest Thunderbird?
(Probably yes, because Bug 268762 is bug report on TB 0.9) 

Comment 5

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Comfirmed on nightly/latest-0.9 2004/12/26 build(Win-2K).

Problem of this bug occurs when ;
 (A) Same SMTP server.
     Different port.
     "Use name and password" is NOT checked,
 (B) Same SMTP server.
     Different port.
     "Use name and password" is checked but username is not supplied.
    (This case is test porpose only. Null username is usually meaningless.)

SMTP definition in prefs.js
(A)
> user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtpN.auth_method", 0);
> user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtpN.hostname", "smtp-server-name");
> user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtpN.port", PP);
> user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtpN.username", "");
> user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtpN.try_ssl", X);
(B)
> user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtpN.auth_method", 1);
> user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtpN.hostname", "smtp-server-name");
> user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtpN.port", PP);
> user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtpN.username", "");
> user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtpN.try_ssl", X);

When same hostname but null username, Mozilla/Thunderbird fails to find SMTP
server even when port number is different. 

Workaround :
 Supply dummy & unique username to mail.smtpserver.smtpN.username 
> user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtpN.username", "smtp-N");

Note:
Since change of SMTP server definition thru "Outgoing Server(SMTP)" wiil clear
mail.smtpserver.smtpN.username entry when "Use name and password" is NOT
checked(mail.smtpserver.smtpN.auth_method=0)",
above workaround is always required after SMTP server definition changed.

Additional note:
Current Mozilla/Thunderbird probably doesn't do duplicate check of SMTP definition.
So same definitions can easily be created.
This is different problem but I do not know bug is opened or not.

 

Comment 6

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

*** Bug 268762 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Doug Wright]

Got fixed by 202468