259892 - STAT error when getting POP mail

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 258077

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[will mooney]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

I've just upgraded to 0.8 from 0.73. When I re-stated TB, I recieved the
following error The STAT command did not succeed. Error getting message number
and sizes. Mail server xxx.com responded: Invalid userid/password.
I've set it up to auto download, when I press get mail I get the same error.
I've deleted the account and set up a new one. Still same error. My set up is, 1
IMAP account - working fine :) and 1 POP - the broken one. 
I use offline support.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get mail
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
error The STAT command did not succeed. Error getting message number and sizes.
Mail server xxx.com responded: Invalid userid/password

Expected Results:  
Logged into POP server and collected mail

Comment 1

[will mooney]

I've done a socket scan whilst collecting mail and it looks like the POP login
command is using null:null for the username password combo, then TB does the
STAT command and get the bad username/password reply from my mail server. I've
removed the account, uninstalled TB, tried another POP account but still get the
same result. 
Would it have anything to do with my username containing an '@' symbol - because
it does!?

Comment 2

[will mooney]

I did a socket trace of the connection and it looks like TB is not sending the
right commands to the server... I think it is sending null and null for user and
password? (buf1 in the trace below?) here is part of the conversion (I've
removed some authentication in case is has my password in Wink Why is AUTH being
used? I've got an IMAP4 account also setup, I think this may be causing this
problem?


recv buf0 65
"+OK X1 NT-POP3 Server angie.fasthosts.co.uk (IMail 6.02 7943-2)\r\n"

send buf1 6
"AUTH\r\n"

recv buf2 37
"-ERR authentication exchange failed\r\n"

send buf3 6
"CAPA\r\n"

recv buf4 168
"+OK Capability list follows\r\n"
"TOP\r\n"
"USER\r\n"
"SASL LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5\r\n"
"RESP-CODES\r\n"
"LOGIN-DELAY 120\r\n"
"PIPELINING\r\n"
"EXPIRE 30 USER\r\n"
"UIDL\r\n"
"IMPLEMENTATION Ipswitch_IMail_5.0\r\n"
".\r\n"

send buf5 12
"AUTH PLAIN\r\n"


send buf9 6
"STAT\r\n"

recv buf10 30
"-ERR Invalid userid/password\r\n"

Comment 3

[will mooney]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 258077 ***