263443 - Can't use % or . (dot) in username, the % goes to %25 and . (dot) goes to %2E

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Dennis Petersson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

Can't use % or . (dot) in username/accountname, the % goes to %25 and . (dot)
goes to %2E in the saved passwordlist. I can't pic up or send e-mail with that
e-mailaccount. This is in 0.8 version mayebe even in lover versions.
My e-mailaccont is dennis_p%netatonce.net and demmpa%netatonce.net
byt the e-mailadress is [e-mail] and [e-mail]

This works in Mozilla but not in Thunderbird.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a new e-mail account
2. in the field for 'username for incomming/outgoing e-mail' use a name with %
och . (dot)
3. pick up mail for this account when it askt for password type it and save it
4. go to 'saved passwords' in preferences
Actual Results:  
the % goes to %25 and . (dot) goes to %2E in the username for incomming/outgoing
mail.

Expected Results:  
I expected that % is alwayes is % and . (dot) is alwayes is . (dot).

This works in Mozilla but not in Thunderbird.

Comment 1

[Christian Eyrich]

No, neither TB nor Mozilla uses the username stored in the password manager.
See bug 253439 and my reply there. I didn't dupe this bug since you mention, you
only see this in TB but not in Mozilla.

But it could be very helpful if you create a log (as explained in the other bug)
here. If possible for both clients to compare them.

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

was this a pop3 or imap server? I tried it with IMAP, and didn't have a problem.

Comment 3

[Abigail H.]

I was having the same problem using Thunderbird 1.0 and a gmail account with pop
access that had a dot in the username. I contacted gmail and let them know that
I was having this problem and they said they would look into it. Suddenly
Thunderbird started sending and receiving my gmail without my changing anything,
so I am thinking that this is not really a bug with Thunderbird but a setting
that  the email provider can change??  [e-mail]

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.

Comment 6

[Leston Buell]

I am experiencing this problem with downloading e-mail from a Yahoo.com address that has a dot in the username. Could someone please reopen this? My privilege to do so seems to have disappeared.

Comment 7

[Leston Buell]

I have just tested this with Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 on Linux, and the problem's still there. Please change platform to all.

Comment 8

[HuangLiJun]

I have tested with thunderbird-2.0.0.19-1.el5 On RHEL5.2
thunderbird-2.0.0.18-1.fc10.i386  on f10
and Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 on Window.

the Gmail pop account can't not set up if the username contain the dot.
After input the password I got an alert:
Alert:
Sending of password did not succeed . Mail server pop.gmail.com respond: Username and password not accepted.  

but the Gmail IMAP account can be set up successfully.

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

do you still see a problem if using version 3?