559276 - New startup of seamonkey browser starts POP3 connections out of my control

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Backend, defect)

Description

[Martin Mokrejs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 SeaMonkey/2.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 SeaMonkey/2.0.4

This is new bug report split of bug #323520.

My seamonkey is configured to start only the browser upon startup. However, I see some pop3 traffic initiated while only browser window is up! I suspect because my pop3 server does some remote ident lookup of my client IP address (which has to timeout in 10 or 15 sec because port blocked on a firewall), it just takes a loong while to finish. Usually, after the browser window has been opened I click and open the mailer and the mailer is configured to fetch my 2 pop3 mailboxes (so that happens withing 10 seconds since I started seamonkey I
guess). As I have already mentioned, there are background threads started by
the "browser" window which for an unknown reason tried to connect to my pop3
servers. I believe that is why I get the error "This folder is being processed" if I manage to startup the mailer too early.

If I wait for a long time before opening the mailer window, the error message does not appear and email gets downloaded automatically as expected. I haven't seen this with 1.1.18 or earlier, only now with 2.0.x.

I will attach the NSPR logs.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Martin Mokrejs]

Attachment: nspr_log_file.txt

This is the log generated when I just started seamonkey and just the browser window was raised. I don't know why there is anything trying to connect to my pop3 accounts. I don't have any plugins configured as this is a startup from the binary distribution ./seamonkey/ directory as unpacked from your tar.gz file and about:plugins only shows libnpsoplugin.so installed.

Comment 2

[Martin Mokrejs]

Attachment: nspr_log_file-one-folder-in-processing-other-went-through.txt

This was a new seamonkey startup. Opened browser, opened mailer, got "This folder is being processed", clicked OK, for the second pop3 account I was asked for the password, and it went through. So, there were 4 connections logged. First two by the "background" processes from browser, the latter two (the first was too early and therefore failed, the second to "account2" was late enough to succeed) from mailer.

Comment 3

[lenochod]

(In reply to comment #0)
> My seamonkey is configured to start only the browser upon startup. However, I
> see some pop3 traffic initiated while only browser window is up! 

Have You boxes ticked Edit->Preferences->Mail & Newsgroups->Only check for new mail after opening Mail & Newsgroups ?

Comment 4

[Martin Mokrejs]

No, I don't. I did not understand what is it supposed to do. Now probably understand it is related to the "background" processes.

Comment 5

[Martin Mokrejs]

Anyway, I don't think it is clearly described the field. I definitely do not expect that _browser_ would download my emails. In this particular case, I would be very surprised if _browser_ asked me for my pop3 passwords. And, this bug probably appears because the browser really did not ask me for my pop3 passwords so I really doubt it could ever fetch my emails. Guess that should be clear from the logfile. It just can't work and it just interferes with subsequent startup of a _mailer_ window and those pop3-password-requesting windows (for my 2 accounts).

Comment 6

[Bruno 'Aqualon' Escherl]

Karsten, do you have any idea what happens here?

Comment 7

[Phoenix]

Is this still reproducible?