259679 - Make the mechanism used for POP authentication mechanism adjustable

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, enhancement)

Description

[Christian Eyrich]

Since users again and again run into buggy servers with which our automatic
fallback doesn't help (e.g. bug 258077) it seems necessary to give the user the
ability for enabling/disabling various authentication mechanisms.


Currently m_prefAuthMethod (class nsSmtpProtocol) and pref
mail.smtpserver.default.auth_method can only become PREF_AUTH_ANY and
PREF_AUTH_NONE, so all or nothing.

If we'd have PREF_AUTH_PLAIN, PREF_AUTH_LOGIN, PREF_AUTH_CRAM_MD5 a.s.o. and the
code to interpret it, the user could choose (in a pref var first and then in UI).

The questions are with or without UI and how to save it to the prefs (single
pref for each mechanism or bitfields)?
One solution would be a drop-down menu with all the mechanisms supported by
Mozilla listed plus "automatic" for the current (and default) behaviour.
This would enable the user to choose one mechanism to use or to fail (if not
automatic). Or a series of checkboxes (one for every supported mechanism) so the
user can combine any mechanism with every other.

Comment 1

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sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.