525649 - Unable to post or reply to NNTP servers which use authentication

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 484656

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: General, defect)

Description

[Bill Davidsen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091017 NOT Firefox/3.5.3 SeaMonkey/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091017 NOT Firefox/3.5.3 SeaMonkey/2.0

When trying to use servers which require authentication (ex: news.eternal-september.org) post and reply fail with a "check configuration" message. No network packets are sent (not a fail to auth).

Posts to servers not using authentication work fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create an NNTP account for a server requiring authentication
2.Connect to the server and subscribe to some "test" group
3.Post a test message to that group

Actual Results:  
Does not even attempt to send the message (no packets generated), displays a "Check your configuration" box. Will add attachment after bug is filed.

Expected Results:  
Message posted.

Several confirming posts to mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey, this is not an isolated problem.

** blocks migration from SM 1.1.18 for users of authenticating servers **
This is typical of servers using for customer support.

Comment 1

[Bill Davidsen]

Attachment: Screen dump of error message displayed

This is an example of the error displayed.

Comment 2

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

I can post messages to a secure news server that requires authentication (I won't name it here because I cannot give anyone access to it anyhow) with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5pre) Gecko/20091031 SeaMonkey/2.0.1pre. Can you reproduce with such a pre-2.0.1 nightly?

<ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/seamonkey/nightly/latest-comm-1.9.1>

Comment 3

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Iirc, duplicate of some (fixed) Mailnews Core bug, about bad profile migration from v1.1.x ?

Comment 4

[Bill Davidsen]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Iirc, duplicate of some (fixed) Mailnews Core bug, about bad profile migration
> from v1.1.x ?

Since this happens with both migrated and new profiles, and on machines which never had 1.1.xx installed, I don't see how that would follow.

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

there was a bug like that for smtp, but not, afaik, nntp.

Comment 6

[Bill Davidsen]

Additional information - e-s.org is unlike some other sites needing authentication, in that it will accept connections without auth, allowing read-only access to a limited set of groups. Thus the need for the "always offer authentication" check.

Is there a flag which gets set when the server *requests* auth, which is not set when it is offered unrequested? As noted before, SM doesn't even try to do a POST, it just rejects the configuration at the send prompt.

I have also duplicated this starting by installing a new virtual machine from bare bits (Fedora-12beta), installing SM on that, and verifying the issue. Migration issues, corrupt profiles, and add-on issues can all be eliminated as possible causes. Also tested on a fresh Fedora-11 install on bare metal (real hardware).

Comment 7

[L Russ]

I've had the same or a similar problem with the same symptoms. I've tried this with the outgoing SMTP server settings for security and authentication turned on and off, nothing seems to work.  I'm not sure what other settings to try.

In what might be a related note, when I first installed 2.0 I had to uncheck the SMTP server settings for security and authentication for email.

I didn't seem to have these problems with the previous version which was I believe 1.1.18. I am using Win XP, I have Zone Alarm installed.

Comment 9

[Philip Chee]

Probably a duplicate of bug 484656