53488 - [RFE] Should be possible to logout of IMAP mail account

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Peter Janes]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-3 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20000915
BuildID:    2000091508

It's not currently possible, that I can see, to log out of an IMAP mail account
(or all accounts at once) without quitting Mozilla.  This would be useful for
the case where one connects to an account via an SSH-forwarded port: logging out
of the remote shell is not completed until Mozilla is completely exited, because
it's holding the forwarded port open.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. ssh to tunnelhost, forwarding remote port to local port (e.g. 'ssh -R
143:mailhost:143 tunnelhost').
2. Connect Mozilla to the server on localhost:143 (the tunneled port to the
remote server).
3. Read some messages on the remote server.
4. Exit the ssh shell.  It will report something like:

> logout
Waiting for forwarded connections to terminate...
The following connections are open:
  listen port 143 for mailhost port 143, connect from localhost.localdomain port
1110

Expected Results:  At some point, Mozilla should close the connection to the
server, perhaps when a message on another server is selected, or by a user's
direct request (File/Close mail server?).

Comment 1

[Matthew Cline]

Promoting to NEW, adding "[RFE]" to summary.

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

This is something we'd like to consider in the next release.

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

nominating for mozilla 1.0 and pulling back from future since we're in the next
release cycle now.

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

workaround: click on the online/offline button in the lower right corner. This
should give a hint how to implement it.

You don't need to setup a ssh-tunnel to test this, any imap-account will do. Use
netstat (Unix, Linux, Windows) to see your connections. Click on the
offline-icon, and they dissapear.

Comment 5

[Peter Janes]

I actually thought of this--one local connection stays in TIME_WAIT, and the
ssh-tunneled session stays in FIN_WAIT2, TIME_WAIT or CLOSE_WAIT.  I suppose the
latter behaviour could be a bug in SSH, but I don't have similar problems using
tunneled Pine to access IMAP.

Comment 6

[andrew]

It should also be possible to log out of POP mail account (forget the passwords)
If Mozilla is used to manage a number of role accounts, and the PC is left
unattended, the risk to privacy/security may be reduced by logging out
of inactive accounts

Comment 7

[esther]

*** Bug 193653 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

*** Bug 213203 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***