247459 - Firefox tries to connect to mail server

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Deniska]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

Personal firewall shows that Firefox frequently tries to connect to mail server.
Host for connect is got from:
network.hosts.pop_server or network.hosts.smtp_server
I even wonder what these options (along with network.hosts.nntp_server) are
doing in Firefox?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Browser. Run Personal Firewall with monitoring.
2. Firefox application will try to connect to mail host.


Actual Results:  
It connects mail host.

Expected Results:  
It should not even know about any mail configurations.

Comment 1

[Zach Spoelstra]

I'm pretty sure these options are for the new mail toolbar button in firefox. 
although mine have a default of "mail" so they are not accessing the network.

Does your config show something else for network.hosts.pop_server and
network.hosts.smtp_server ?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

Comment 2

[Deniska]

these settings show "mail", which refers (by local dns) to our mailhost.
these settings were not changed by profile creation and "mail" is default value.
I think, that these settings should be blank by default.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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