288003 - Request more detailed SMTP settings

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Stefan Onken]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

I noticed some broken SMTP Server which are not able to handle SMTP Logins with
CRAM. Mozilla (Thunberbird) is bypassing the problem with several fallback
methods. The only problem is a) an error message on the server side for the
failed login method and b) a delay on the client side. I am asking for a way
(even hidden in the prefs file) to explicity set the needed login method (like
kmail is doing for example).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.SMTP Preferences Dialog
2.set the login name
3.try to send email
4.

Actual Results:  
the first login is denied (due to server related settings), the 2nd try with the
failback mechanism works fine

Expected Results:  
a setting to define the first used smtp auth mechanism

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Workaround: I think you can go back to a simpler user/password login-process
with the following setting in prefs.js :

user_pref("mail.server.server?.auth_login", false);

Replace the ? with the number of server you're configuring (you'll see in prefs.js)

Comment 2

[Stefan Onken]

that doesnt work for me. Please note, that I talking about the SMTP Auth 
process. But even with a new line like 
"user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtp2.auth_login", false);" or 
"user_pref("mail.server.server2.auth_login", false);" it does not work 
(properly).  
 
cu 
stonki 
 

Comment 3

[Stefan Onken]

setting "mail.smtpserver.default.trySecAuth" to "0" is diabling the secure
login. This sorted my problem.

(I installed "about:config" to find and edit those settings)