904057 - Sending to multiple recipients fails on IMAP

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(MailNews Core :: Networking: SMTP, defect)

Description

[xanda]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130730113002

Steps to reproduce:

Compose an email to multiple recipients on a BCC list. Number of reipients is in the order of 90 plus.
Attach a file to message (may not be relevant).
Click send.
Sending account is hosted by GMX.co.uk and sent using IMAP over TLS/SSL.


Actual results:

During transit from client, mail progress is halted at some point with address failure (even though known to be known working:

Message box reads:
"An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded:  Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable
Failure sending mail. Try again later. Please check the message recipient [e-mail] and try again."

For next few hours, no emails can be sent, regardless of length of recipient list or presence of attachments.


Expected results:

Email should have been sent as per request.

Comment 1

[cl_ryser]

I have got the exact same problem! I use thunderbird 38.4.0. Sending account gmx.ch (smtp is mail.gmx.net); imap over TLS/SSL.

"An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded:  Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable
Failure sending mail. Try again later. Please check the message recipient [e-mail] and try again."

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(only happens gmx?)

Reporters, can you still reproduce this?

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Everyone is gone => incomplete