Closed Bug 85649 Opened 23 years ago Closed 15 years ago

newline POP3 password (?)

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(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, defect)

defect
Not set
major

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(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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(Reporter: uithuis, Unassigned)

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD 1.5 i386; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010612
BuildID:    Mozilla-0.9.1

Mozilla sends a  newline right after the password when logging into a POP3 server.
This only happens when cut/pasting password into password dialog.
I guess that means it is possible to have a newline/CR in the password field
which probably should not be possible in the first place.

I'll attached a tcptrace.
Allthough it looks like the ERR is a response to the STAT command a telnet
session showed otherwise, I guess the order gets mixed up due to another bug in
the POP server software and the rapid succession of the two newline/cr characters.



I have been able to repsoduce this on Win98 with build 2001061120

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create mail account.
2. Get messages for account
3. Copy/paste mail password
4. watch error response.

Actual Results:  Error message popup containing the ERR stated in attachment

Expected Results:  Retreive mail

This prevents me from getting my mail can't get any more critical than that.
build Id: 2001061808 win98 I see this too. confirming the bug. But I think most 
people would type the password instead of using a copy and paste. I am not sure 
if this is valid. I will leave it to Navin to comment. 
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
I mean this is really trivial; who cuts and paste password ?
I understand this won't be a problem most of the time, however I've had two
other people come to me complaining mail didn't work for them due to this problem.
ISP's over here routinely pass account information (including passwords) by
e-mail. So cut-n-pasting passwords is probably a common thing in these cases?

QA Contact: sheelar → esther
mass re-assign.
Assignee: naving → sspitzer
Product: MailNews → Core
sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.
Assignee: sspitzer → nobody
Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"
QA Contact: esther → networking.pop
Product: Core → MailNews Core
WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4pre) Gecko/20090312 Shredder/3.0b3pre

I pasted 7 char pwd with a newline in the buffer.  pwd dialog only shows 7. don't know if this is as feature of the new pwd mgr or was fixed before this. but in any event, it works for me.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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