319877 - POP3 RETR message number is incorrect

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, defect)

Description

[RobertoB]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Build Identifier: Thunderbird Version 1.5 (20051201)

Checking a POP3 account sends an incorrect parameter for the RETR command. This error occurs with Thunderbird 1.0.7 as well as 1.5 RC1.
Outlook express sends the correct parameter for the RETR command.
A Sample conversation is included below, comments in <>:

S: +OK POP3 Server Ready <750360eed1e237ac6268f439819cb076@lokalhost>

C: AUTH
S: -ERR Unknown Command.

C: CAPA
S: +OK Brief Capabilities follow <response snipped>

c: USER robert
S: +OK Command Sucessful.

C: PASS password
S: +OK Authorized, Mailbox locked and ready.

C: STAT
S: +OK 1 2993

C: LIST
S: +OK 1 messages (2993 octets).
S: +OK 1 2993

C: UIDL
S: +OK
S: 1 4071365c00000bb7

C: RETR 0 <Client should be sending RETR 1, as defined in LIST response>
S: -ERR No such message (0).



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Check mail on a POP3 account (with 1 message in POP mailbox)
2. Error dialog pops up with "The mail server responded with ....."


Actual Results:  
2. Error dialog pops up with "The mail server responded with ....."

Expected Results:  
Mail message should download normally, specifically, sending "RETR 1" instead of "RETR 0"

Standard install with no add-on's

Comment 1

[RobertoB]

OK, this was a bug in the POP server I was using, in the message I originally posted, the list command was incorrectly including "+OK" in the list response "+OK 1 2993". This caused the RETR command to incorrectly use an invalid parameter.