272031 - can't authentificate to SMTP server if login name contain -, eg blah-bloh. It passes only first part of login name, eg blah

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Arkady Shraer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

If my login name to SMTP server contains '-' (e.g. 'my-account'), then TB9.0
passes only first part of login (before '-', e.g. 'my') and pops-up the dialog,
which shows, that first part of login name and the message, that user can't be
authentificated.

KMail with the same parameters works fine.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create mail account on server with smtp authentification with login, that
contains '-'
2. edit account settings for smtp in TB9
3. try to send mail

Actual Results:  
TB will report, that user 'part of liginname before -' can't be authentificated
on smtp server

Expected Results:  
just send mail

Comment 1

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 272032 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

WORKSFORME for both SMTP and POP3 with TB version 0.9+ (20041123) on Win-2K.

When I inserted a space before "-" in POP3 username, my POP3 server sent back
error message of "too many parameters in login".
This indicates that Thunderbird sends all string including a space to server.
And behaviour of server in such case possibly depends on server software.
So if you inserted a space, your server possibly considers string before a space
is username.

Are there any strange string around '-' in your username setting?
See prefs.js and check next settings of all SMTP servers you defined.
 - mail.smtpserver.smtpNN.username
 - mail.smtpserver.smtpNN.hostname 

Comment 3

[Arkady Shraer]

(In reply to comment #2) 
 
Maybe it was problem of the smtp server, because it works for me today. 
But strange things: it worked with KMail, but failed with TB9+. 
 
I mark this bug as INVALID.