300950 - thunderbird 1.05 cannot connect to my email accounts unless I allow thunderbird-bin to connect to 102.69-93-29.reverse.theplanet.com

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)

Description

[fishpiss]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/312.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312
Build Identifier: 

I just updated Thunderbird 1.0 to 1.05 by downloading it onto my mac and  dragging it into the 
applications folder. I opened it for the first time and all my previous preferences, inboxes, emails etc. 
were there, but Little Snitch alerted me that 'thunderbird-bin wants to connect to 102.69-93
-29.reverse.theplanet.com on TCP port 110 (pop3)'. After selecting Allow Once, I was able to log in to 
all my email accounts, which then functioned properly. However, since I have never had to allow 
reverse.theplanet.com to access my ports with Thunderbird 1.0, I closed Thunderbird 1.05, re-opened 
it and this time denied the access to reverse.theplanet.com . After denying the access, I received 
messages that Thunderbird was unable to connect to my email accounts, and I was thus unable to send 
or receive emails.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Thunderbird 1.05
2. Little Snitch (ver. 1.1.1) asks to allow ''thunderbird-bin... to connect to 102.69-93
-29.reverse.theplanet.com on TCP port 110 (pop3)"
3. Deny this connection.
4. Thunderbird cannot access email servers.

Actual Results:  
Unable to send or receive new emails.

Expected Results:  
As in Thunderbird 1.0, able to send or receive new emails without having to deal with third-parties 
wanting port access first.

It is important to stress that this has never occurred before I installed Thunderbird 1.05 . I am 
classifying it critical because I cannot otherwise send or receive emails without first opening a port to a 
third party which has been called a major spammer on various webmaster message boards.

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

*** Bug 300951 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

It's possible you were always connecting to this site to get your mail, but
thunderbird was whitelisted with your firewall. When you upgraded thunderbird
the firewall detected that the app changed and you need to whitelist it again.

What POP server do you think you were connecting to in order to get your mail?

What messages does Thunderbird itself put up, specifically what servers does
*thunderbird* think it's trying to reach?

Could we look at your prefs.js file? You probably don't want to attach it to
this bug, which will eventually be made public, but you could mail it to
[e-mail] and mention bug 300950 in the subject. prefs.js is in your
profile folder

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folder#Where_is_my_profile_folder.3F

Comment 3

[fishpiss]

Hi
Sorry, my reply was by email to the person who asked the questions-- sorry I
assumed he would get that.
Also, I have OSX 10.3.9 and there is no profile to be found anywhere for
Thunderbird, though I must assume there is one. Your web help page suggests
looking in library/Thunderbird or library/application support but neither of
these folders are on my hard drive. There is nothing, in fact, in the
system/library folder pertaining to individual applications.
By the way, neither Thunderbird nor Firefox has ever updated itself or notified
me of an update, even weeks after an update-- for example, in this case I was
updating Thunderbird 1.0 to 1.5, with none of the interim updates having been
indicated. I managed to find out about updates to Firefox from reading tech
columns in online newspapers and always updated it myself, again weeks later.

Comment 4

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

No one else has reported these mysterious symptoms, WFM