272367 - proxy authentication does not work with mail and newsgroups

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[trix supremo]

if proxy requires authentication, all mail types(IMAP & POP3) and newsgroups
fail to establish a connection and retrieve data.

Reproducible: Always
Steps:
1. Assume proxy server setup for authentication (Uname/Pwd permissions only).
2. Setup a mail acct and/or newsgroup(news.mozilla.org)
3. Launch tbird and try to get mail or retrieve newgroup listings.

Actual:
Fails to authenticate. 

Note:
RSS feeds work correctly.  retrieving new message feeds or adding a new feed
correctly brings up the authentication dialog and data is received.  If
authentication is removed, both messages and newgroups properly connect to the
proxy server and transfer data.

Comment 1

[trix supremo]

this was working previously. its possible the fix for bug 260836 may have
corrected RSS feeds but caused this issue.

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

how can I test this Trix. Do we have proxy servers in house that I can try to
connect against? 

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

Trix, I didn't think we supported proxy for mail. Only for HTTP requests. How do
you configure an imap or news server to use a proxy? Our UI only exposes
configuring proxy for HTTP or SOCKS (Tools / Options / Advanced). I'm sure I'm
missing something obvious here...

Comment 4

[trix supremo]

scott: without authentication, when trying to get messages for a mail account or
newsgroup through a proxy, a SOCKS5 connection can be established and data can
be transferred.  but if you enable authentication(permit user only to connect),
that SOCKS5 connection no longer gets established and just displays the message
"Connected to ..." which also is misleading since the proxy logs dont show a
connection was ever established.

Comment 5

[Scott MacGregor]

With Trix's help, I've gotten myself set up with a Proxy server and am able to
reproduce the symptoms. 

I've gone backwards and I see this in 0.9 and in 0.8 as well.

I still claim this is because none of the mailnews protocols support proxy
servers (and never have)and that we are configuring mailnews to use a proxy but
there's no actual mailnews code that knows to prompt for proxy auth because we
don't support it. The only proxy auth code I see in Thunderbird is in the http
module when making http requests which matches the behavior I see with RSS http
pages. :)

Comment 6

[Luca M.]

Running TB 1.0.2

Today I tried to subscribe to RSS of Planet Mozilla. It doesn't work because
Thunderbird doesn't ask me for username/password of my HTTP proxy server.

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 264900 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Marek Grinberg]

Hello gurus,

I have a similar problem.
As I am behind a firewall, I have to define proxy in order to fetch mail with 
inline URLs. Thereafter I prick up one email at a time, and click on the Show 
button. When I click on Fetch mail button, nothing happens. So I disable proxy 
and click on the Fetch mail button again. Nothing happens. So I restart 
Thunderbird 1.02 again. Very annoying.
Proxy setting worked perfectly in TB 1.0

Comment 9

[Marek Grinberg]

Hello again,

Sorry for misspelling.

I wrote: I prick up one email , instead of: I pick up one email.

Comment 10

[Ken]

I get this error when sending by AIM account - I need to use Authentication for SMTP and not for the IMAP - if I check Authenticate on IMAP - it will not receive messages - nor will it send messages through the SMTP. If I disable the Authenticate it will receive by IMAP but refuses to send by SMTP.

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Ken writes 9/14/2007 3:10 PM "2.0[.0.6] Works for me - with no problems".

=> WFM