453035 - Wizard uses username for SMTP when none entered

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[David Balažic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.16 (20080708)

After fresh install the new email account wizard will save a username for the SMTP server, even if the user erased the proposed username in the wizard page.
This leads to failure when sending email, as the smtp server will ask for a password for the bogus username.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install Thunderbird 2.0.0.16
2. start it
3. do not import any settings
4. in the account wizard chose "new Email account"
5. fill in data:
 - deselect "Use Global Inbox" (not sure if relevant, this is how I did it)
 - select POP type of incoming server
 - edit the proposed POP username
 - delete the proposed SMTP username (make it empty)
 - deselect "Download messages" on last page of wizard
6. Open the Account manager
7. check the SMTP server settings, to see if it used a username in spite of specifying none
Actual Results:  
Thunderbird will use a username for SMTP:
 - can be seen in the account settings
 - can be seen by effect, when TB asks for a password when sending a mail

Expected Results:  
no username used for SMTP

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Confirmed on trunk.

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

I'm sure this is no more the case, can you test david with recent versions of Tb ?

Comment 3

[David Balažic]

The wizard is different in v3, so the bug is INVALID, IMO.

Comment 4

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> The wizard is different in v3, so the bug is INVALID, IMO.

Me too but wanted your thoughts before closing. Thanks for replying.