271594 - IMAP + SSL sometimes cannot connect

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Yves Goergen]

User-Agent:       Firefox/1.0 (Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 0.9

My Thunderbird sometimes cannot connect to the SSL IMAP server. It just says it
cannot connect, with some kind of error message saying nothing at all. Right
now, it worked for one account, but not for the other two. All accounts are on
the same server and configured to auto-check on startup.

Turning off SSL, browsing a folder and turning SSL back on helps. It then works
with SSL again.

I have tried out any possible setting of maximum connections (currently set to
1) and root folder stuff (currently set to INBOX.*). I'm using a Courier-IMAP
server.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
Not reproduceable.
Actual Results:  
Cannot connect, see above.

Expected Results:  
Connects.

Comment 1

[David Cafaro]

I see this exact same issue with Thunderbird 0.9 on Windows XP SP2 connecting to
my server with courier-imap-3.0.7-1 over SSL.  I have no problems using
Evolution on Fedora Core 2 to connect to the same server over SSL.  Regular
non-SSL imap works fine in Thunderbird.

Comment 2

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

We would need a lot more detail to be able to diagnose what is going on and
probably a patch for the trunk with lots of testing before this could get in.
Minusing for 1.0.

Comment 3

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Also, suggestion would be to get a NSPR log.

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
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