677048 - [config] Yahoo: Use email address as username?

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Webtools :: ISPDB Database Entries, defect)

Description

[Eric]

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0)

Steps to reproduce:

Setup a new Yahoo business e-mail account.  For example, the yahoo business e-mail address is [e-mail].


Actual results:

The yahoo mail servers are detected correctly, but the username is missing the domain name.  For example username is "eric".


Expected results:

The username for Yahoo business e-mail accounts with custom domain name should be the full e-mail address, for example "[e-mail]".

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Indeed we use %LOCALPART% in https://live.mozillamessaging.com/autoconfig/v1.1/yahoo.com .

Comment 2

[Eric]

If it is not possible to distinguish between regular Yahoo account and Yahoo business mail accounts, maybe just use %EMAILADDRESS% instead.  This will work for both account types.

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to Eric from comment #2)
> If it is not possible to distinguish between regular Yahoo account and Yahoo
> business mail accounts, maybe just use %EMAILADDRESS% instead.  This will
> work for both account types.

Ben Thoughts ?

Comment 4

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/classic/mailplus/pop/pop-35.html
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/classic/mailplus/pop/pop-14.html
say
> Account Name/Login Name: Your Yahoo! Mail ID
> (your email address without the "@domain.com", for example, “jo.bloggs”)

I'd like confirmation that the email address as username works in all cases and countries. Then I have no objection, in fact I think it's a good idea.

hcwang (Yahoo Inc), can you confirm, if necessary by asking engineering, please?

Comment 7

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to Ben Bucksch (:BenB) from comment #4)

> hcwang (Yahoo Inc), can you confirm, if necessary by asking engineering,
> please?

Ping

Comment 9

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

JB, blake can we get confirmation of this.

Ben, sancus shoudln't we clean up https://live.mozillamessaging.com/autoconfig/v1.1/ and remove duplicated domains ?

Comment 10

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

In bug 732778, it's found that Tb's autoconfig tries both localpart and email-addr as userName when mail domain is not deined in ISPDB.
How about next change?
(1) If %EMAILADDRESS% is specified as userName in ISPDB, try %EMAILLOCALPART% also when login with %EMAILADDRESS% fails.
(2) If login with %EMAILADDRESS% fails but login with %EMAILLOCALPART% is successful, fall back to %EMAILLOCALPART%.
(3) Change ISPDB definition for Yahoo! to <username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>.

Comment 11

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Attachment: Fix v1 - change to full email address as username

I think we should go forward with this.

There's the patch. I tested both @yahoo.de and @yahoo.com. Both work on IMAP with the new username form.

@yahoo.de didn't work on POP3 (IMAP worked), but neither the old nor the new username form worked, so that's unrelated.
@yahoo.com on POP3 with the new username form worked.

Comment 12

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

> @yahoo.de didn't work on POP3 (IMAP worked) ... that's unrelated.

Filed bug 733707

Comment 13

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Commited as SVN Revision 103358
FIXED

Comment 14

[Blake Winton (:bwinton) (:☕️)]

Comment on attachment 603651 [details] [diff] [review]
Fix v1 - change to full email address as username

Don't we need two reviews before a change gets committed to this tree, Ben?  ;)

Later,
Blake.

Comment 15

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Yeah, but I'd been waiting 2 weeks. I don't have much time either. Touching the same bug more than 4 times costs too much time for me, so I pooled it with another ISPDB bug.

Given that the change was suggested by Eric, I counted myself as reviewer. svn log:
yahoo: use full email address as username -- bug 603241, suggestion by Eric, patch+r=BenB, r=gozer