261963 - can't login to pop server if username contains @ at symbol

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 258077

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[George Olive]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040927 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040927 Firefox/0.10

It appears that the username is urlencoded in prefs.js. My login
[e-mail] was stored as [e-mail]. I
suspect but can not verify that this is what is really sent. The pop server (at
least my pop server) does not accept 'george%40cyberainc.com' as equivallent to
'[e-mail]. You should translate the urlencoding back to text to send.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.need a pop account with specal characters in username (in this case '@')
2.check mail
3..

Actual Results:  
username/password error

Expected Results:  
logged into pop server and retrieved mail

I can't tell if you got the right version info. My version of Thunderbird is
version 0.8 (20040913)

This may also be the cause of bug 259880

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Can you attach a POP log, see
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html#pop for a how-to
(just replace mozilla with thunderbird of course :). You can also attach a
packet trace from something like Ethereal, but please note you might have to
delete the Password from the packet trace then (in the pop log created by
Mozilla the password isn't included).

Comment 2

[George Olive]

Attachment: Thunderbird log file showing problem connecting to cyberainc.com

This file has 3 connections logged. The last one, 'mail.cyberainc.com' shows
the error described. The other 2 work correctly.

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Probably Related/Dupe of Bug 259840?

Comment 4

[Christian Eyrich]

(In reply to comment #0)
> was stored as [e-mail]. I suspect but can not verify
> that this is what is really sent.

No it isn't. We decode it before sending and really only send the username
without the second @cyberainc.com.
You can see this in the third try "USER [e-mail]" in your log.

Comment 5

[Christian Eyrich]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Probably Related/Dupe of Bug 259840?

At least a dupe of bug 258077. That the blank line shows up in the log isn't a
sign of bug 259840 since 1.7.x doesn't contain the patch for bug 234421.

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