300951 - 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 DUPLICATE of bug 300950

(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]]

double-submit

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 300950 ***