Open
Bug 593316
Opened 14 years ago
Updated 2 years ago
Failing to prompt for password or login - Error: malformed URI sequence
Categories
(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)
MailNews Core
Backend
Tracking
(blocking-thunderbird3.1 ?)
NEW
Tracking | Status | |
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blocking-thunderbird3.1 | --- | ? |
People
(Reporter: standard8, Unassigned)
References
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Details
(Whiteboard: [gs])
Symptoms: - Attempt to check email, no email obtained. - The following error appears in the error console (accessible under the tools menu): Error: malformed URI sequence file:///C:/Archivos%20de%20programa/Mozilla%20Thunderbird/components/nsLoginManagerPrompter.js Line: 469 If the error doesn't appear your issue isn't this bug. Workaround: - Go into options or preferences. - Select Advanced, followed by General. Then select the Config Editor... button. - This will bring up a window, in the Filter part enter "userName" (without the quotes). - Look at entries such as: mail.server.server3.userName mail.server.server3.realuserName - Ensure that both of these do not contain non-ascii characters. If they do you can modify them by right-clicking and selecting Modify. - Restart Thunderbird You should then be able to access your account, although you may need to re-enter your password.
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Comment 1•14 years ago
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Some more debugging shows that I think this is only a problem during upgrade. I think we managed to change how we're storing the username in prefs.js possibly unicode versus UTF-8 or something like that. STR: - In Thunderbird 2, create an account with a username like "sé", the non-ascii character is important. - Load Thunderbird 3.1 try and get new mail (it doesn't matter if it should succeed or not). => Result is the error message in comment 0 on the console and no password dialog. I'm not sure there is much we can do about this, not without breaking existing users. If David or Neil have any thoughts, they would be welcome.
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Updated•14 years ago
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blocking-thunderbird3.1: --- → ?
Comment 2•14 years ago
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Mozilla 1.6 stores the realusername in ISO-8859-1 format.
Comment 3•14 years ago
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If you are faced with the problem, open the file nsLoginManagerPrompter.js and go to line 469. Add // to comment out the decodeURI function. I'm running thunderbird on mac os. This solves the problem for me... Just a quick and dirty workaround.
Comment 4•9 years ago
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Removing myslef on all the bugs I'm cced on. Please NI me if you need something on MailNews Core bugs from me.
Updated•2 years ago
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Severity: normal → S3
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