241954 - Mozilla MailNews adds route to WindowsXP causing frequent Dial-Up)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Peter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

I found out the Mozilla Mail is always adding a route entry to WindowsXP with an
target address of the mailserver the emails are stored on. 
This causes frequent internet dial-in conenctions of the router.

Can this be omitted?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use Internet Dial-In Router and DNS-Server on different boxes
2. Read Email from favorite Mailbox (Imap)
3. Open CMD/Command shell under WindowsXP
4. route print
5. There is a route added to the Mailserver. 
6. Closing Mozilla dos not remove the route.


Actual Results:  
The Dialin router frequently dials into the internet.

Expected Results:  
Use the default route of the OS.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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