418947 - Draft contains empty body (after SMTP-AUTH error)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 418727

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Richard Hitt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080208 Fedora/2.0.0.12-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.12
Build Identifier: version 3.0a1pre (2008022103)

Refer also to bug# 418945.  After receiving the SMTP-AUTH error message and clicking OK I clicked Save to save the message, but the message draft that was saved contained a blank body.  Subject and To: were as expected.  Draft was in "Local Folders".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Ensure that user pref mail.smtpserver.smtp1.auth_method is set to 1
2. Start thunderbird.
3. Compose message.
4. Click "Send"
5. Receive popup box "Send Message Error" containing "Sending of message failed.
An error occurred sending mail: Unable to authenticate to SMTP server mail.pacbell.net. It does not support authentication (SMTP-AUTH) but you have chosen to use authentication. Uncheck 'Use name and password' for that server or contact your service provider.
6. Click OK on that popup box.
7. Click Save on the compose box (on teh same line as "Send")
8. Click "Local Folders" -> Drafts -> (the last item)
9. Note that no message body has been saved.
10. Note that Recipient and Subject are correct.
Actual Results:  
Draft body is absent.

Expected Results:  
Draft body is saved correctly.

For the reproduction of this bug, it should also be the case that your mail SMTP server does not support SMTP AUTH, I guess; otherwise you wouldn't see the cited message, now, would you?

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

No, but much easier than remembering which of my SMTP servers that change in prompt forced me to realize wasn't actually supporting auth would be just to say "please try again with tomorrow's nightly build, which will have the fix for bug 418727, of which I imagine this is a duplicate."

Comment 2

[Richard Hitt]

Thanks Phil, I'll try tomorrow's build

Comment 3

[Richard Hitt]

Build version 3.0a1pre (2008022203) appears to fix the problem.  Thanks.