244154 - mail is always offline - connection timed out

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[shrek-m]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421

it seems that mozilla-mail is always offline while it shows "online"
now i can not get mails (pop, imap), news

this happened while i was reading my mails and browsing
(squid-proxy-server, localhost) *and copying an iso-image on the harddisk*

browser = squid stopped = out of diskspace
mail = connection timed out

after deleting the iso-image:
browser = squid was ok after restart

after reopening mozilla in several ways, online, offline, switching between
offline/online, reboot, ...
mail = timed out

it seems that this mozilla-mail-profile is always offline,
it is no firewall- or network-problem because other profiles and applications
can connect to the servers.

mozilla-browser is working like expected in online/offline mode

Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
1. bring your harddisk out of diskspace
2. try to get messages (pop, imap, news)
2a, not sure if i switched at this time offline/online

3. make room on your harddisk
3. try to get messages

Actual Results:  
"connection timed out"
mail seems to be always offline
browser is working like expected


Expected Results:  
mail should go online and offline like expected

creating and saving new messages, compact folders, ... is ok

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Do you added the proxy also in the "socks proxy" field in the preferences ?

Comment 2

[shrek-m]

oops,

this was one of the first thinks i had done.
    no_proxy ?  proxy_settings !
    stress, added, forgotten :-(

sorry

if i remove the added  "socks-proxy" or set the port to "0"
all is ok.

thanks

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Thanks :-)
Mailnews will use a socks proxy if entered in the preferences and you got no
connection if the proxy is no socks proxy :-)