687364 - Rogers needs full [e-mail] for authentication - autoconfig gets it wrong

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 677048

(Webtools :: ISPDB Server, defect)

Description

[Joe Drew (not getting mail)]

The Thunderbird account autoconfiguration gets the server name correct for Rogers, but doesn't know that it needs to use the full email address for authentication. Right now it just uses username instead of [e-mail], which leads to an inability to get mail!

Also, Rogers doesn't actually support IMAP except on their wireless connections, so it's probably best to drop that as an option.

Sorry if this isn't the right place to file the bug - nothing else looked correct. :)

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Joe can you provide the proper xml file the documentation is at https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Thunderbird/Autoconfiguration

Comment 2

[Joe Drew (not getting mail)]

I have discovered that rogers.com actually chains to yahoo.com (via mx lookup), which means that it's only using %EMAILLOCALPART%, cf <https://live.mozillamessaging.com/autoconfig/v1.1/yahoo.com>. I think it's safe for yahoo.com to use the full email address, isn't it?

Comment 3

[Blake Winton (:bwinton) (:☕️)]

Hey Ben,

you've been talking to Yahoo in bug 493064.  Could you ask if using %EMAILADDRESS% instead of %EMAILLOCALPART% would continue to work for them?

Thanks,
Blake.

Comment 4

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

I already did.