723756 - Add support for domains @pobox.com

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Webtools :: ISPDB Database Entries, defect)

Description

[Casey]

Attachment: pobox.com.xml

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0
Build ID: 20120129021758

Steps to reproduce:

I have created a xml file to have Thunderbird recognize pobox.com email accounts and your own domains with pobox.

NS Records pobox uses:

ns1.rightbox.com
ns2.rightbox.com
ns3.rightbox.com

MX Records:

mx-1.rightbox.com
mx-2.rightbox.com
mx-3.rightbox.com


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<clientConfig version="1.1">
  <emailProvider id="pobox.com">
    <domain>Pobox.com</domain>
    <displayName>Pobox</displayName>
    <displayShortName>Pobox</displayShortName>
    <incomingServer type="imap">
      <hostname>mail.pobox.com</hostname>
      <port>993</port>
      <socketType>SSL</socketType>
      <authentication>password-encrypted</authentication>
      <username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>
    </incomingServer>
    <incomingServer type="imap">
      <hostname>mail.pobox.com</hostname>
      <port>143</port>
      <socketType>STARTTLS</socketType>
      <authentication>password-encrypted</authentication>
      <username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>
    </incomingServer>
    <incomingServer type="pop3">
      <hostname>mail.pobox.com</hostname>
      <port>995</port>
      <socketType>SSL</socketType>
      <authentication>password-cleartext</authentication>
      <username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>
    </incomingServer>
    <incomingServer type="pop3">
      <hostname>mail.pobox.com</hostname>
      <port>110</port>
      <socketType>STARTTLS</socketType>
      <authentication>password-cleartext</authentication>
      <username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>
    </incomingServer>
    <outgoingServer type="smtp">
      <hostname>smtp.pobox.com</hostname>
      <port>465</port>
      <socketType>SSL</socketType>
      <authentication>password-encrypted</authentication>
      <username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>
    </outgoingServer>
    <outgoingServer type="smtp">
      <hostname>smtp.pobox.com</hostname>
      <port>587</port>
      <socketType>STARTTLS</socketType>
      <authentication>password-encrypted</authentication>
      <username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>
    </outgoingServer>
    <documentation url="http://www.pobox.com/helpspot/index.php?pg=kb.book&id=18">
      <descr lang="en">Set Up Your Email Application to Use Pobox</descr>
    </documentation>
  </emailProvider>
</clientConfig>

Comment 1

[Philippe M. Chiasson (:gozer)]

Comment on attachment 594002 [details]
pobox.com.xml

As a bonus, I am a pobox.com customer, so I can attest this is more than correct.

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

blake , snacus can we check that in ?

Comment 3

[Blake Winton (:bwinton) (:☕️)]

I don't have access to that repo anymore.  Perhaps sancus or gozer does…

Comment 4

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

gozer, can you please push this?

Comment 5

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

We need 2 reviews

Comment 6

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

gozer writes:
> I am a pobox.com customer, so I can attest this is more than correct.

OK, that's a huge bonus for pobox! :)

Review:
* The config says <authentication>password-encrypted</authentication> for all protocols, but the SMTP server says: 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN, which does not include CRAM-MD5, POP3 says "SASL LOGIN PLAIN", and IMAP has only "AUTH=PLAIN". That means the config would not work, and login in Thunderbird would fail, if I'm not mistaken. Casey, gozer, could you please clarify why you used/confirmed this config?
* All servers work, and the SSL certificates work (RapidSSL wildcard for *.pobox.com)

Comment 7

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Comment on attachment 594002 [details]
pobox.com.xml

auth mech for SMTP and IMAP would fail

Comment 8

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Attachment: pobox.com, v2: plaintext auth (but with SSL)

Comment 9

[Philippe M. Chiasson (:gozer)]

(In reply to Ben Bucksch (:BenB) from comment #8)
> Created attachment 804541 [details]
> pobox.com, v2: plaintext auth (but with SSL)

Yes, you are correct. Plain-text passwords over SSL is what I am using successfully now.

Comment 10

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Commited as SVN Revision 120329

FIXED

Comment 11

[Philippe M. Chiasson (:gozer)]

Had to make a small typo fix to the committed XML:

Index: pobox.com
===================================================================
--- pobox.com   (revision 120351)
+++ pobox.com   (revision 120352)
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
       <authentication>password-cleartext</authentication>
       <username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>
     </outgoingServer>
-    <documentation url="http://www.pobox.com/helpspot/index.php?pg=kb.book&id=18">
+    <documentation url="http://www.pobox.com/helpspot/index.php?pg=kb.book&amp;id=18">
       <descr lang="en">Set Up Your Email Application to Use Pobox</descr>
     </documentation>
   </emailProvider>

Comment 12

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Outch. Sorry for not catching the mistake. Thanks for fixing it!

Comment 13

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

http://www.troll.me/images/chuck-norris/testing-is-for-wimps-real-men-test-their-code-in-production.jpg