74964 - Sending of message failed

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 74387

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[David Shochat]

In CVS builds done with c/o dates on April 3, 4, and 5, E-mail messages
cannot be sent. These are no debug builds with -O2 optimization.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Compose an E-mail message (no attachments), plain text (happens also
   with HTML).
2. Hit Send.

Expected result:
Message is sent

Actual result:
An alert box says "Sending of message failed", and (nice feature) the 
composition window returns allowing me to copy my text to somewhere else
so I can actually send it (for example with an earlier build that doesn't
have this bug).

Reproduceable: Always.

I was advised by Varada (in newsgroup) to attach the message but I don't know
how to capture a message that could not be sent other than copying the body 
text to a file, and the bug occurs even with a body consisting simply of "test".

Comment 1

[David Shochat]

Ok, I found the "Use secure connection (SSL)" option in the SMTP server area
of mail/news account settings. It was set to "when available". By changing
to "Never" the bug goes away and I can send. So severity should be low (I 
had originally said "critical"). My SMTP server is
smtp.ne.mediaone.net.

Comment 2

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74387 ***

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified dup.