Closed Bug 890589 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Thunderbird fails to work with http proxies

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

17 Branch
x86_64
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 264981

People

(Reporter: staticd.growthecommons, Unassigned)

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(1 file)

Attached file imap.py
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/28.0.1500.52 Chrome/28.0.1500.52 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Steps to reproduce:
set the proxy settings manually in thunderbird to any http(s) proxy.
try to set up or open an account.


Actual results:

Results:
Thunderbird fails at password verification.


Expected results:

Expected results:
Thunderbird should connect to the email servers using the http(s) proxy. (using the CONNECT method)

Work around:
Thunderbird (manually set to no-proxy) and run under proxychains (tunneling data to the http/s proxy ) proxy works just fine

Comments:
1)Try polipo (with tor if necessary) for a proxy that is guaranteed to not have any port blocking issues.

2)The attached file (imap.py) is a perfectly functional minimal imap client that uses ONLY the http CONNECT method of a proxy to reach the gmail server.

2.1)Use this program to verify that
(a) your proxy allows outbound ssl traffic to the server and port
(b) your login credentials and settings for your email account are fine (no unlock captcha problems etc)

2.2)This shows that thunderbird should not require
a) any direct connection, DNS, socks etc.
b) no special proxy server settings – except allowing outbound CONNECT requests to the ports in question. CONNECT requests to a proxy are a prerequisite for https traffic anyway.

I filed this at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1192995
(finally worked up the nerve to bring it here directly)
I believe this is a duplicate of bug 264981.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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