94140 - user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtp2.redirector_type", "aol"); prevents sending mail

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Mack Earnhardt]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010806
BuildID:    20010806

I added a new outbound server through the 'advanced' screen, but could not send
mail through it after numerous attempts.  Mail log on server reported a
connection but the connection timed out without receiving mail.  Moz sat at the
'connecting to server' state indefinitely.  

I could send from the same box with NS4.72 so I thougth Moz didn't like the smtp
daemon on the server.  The server was running exim, so I switched it to postfix
which didn't help.

I found I could send to the server from a clean install of Moz on another NT
box, so I checked prefs.js for cruft and found
user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtp2.redirector_type", "aol");  Removing this line
resolved the problem.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
I have not tried to reproduce the creation of the offending config line. but
while it was there the connection timed out every time.

Comment 1

[Mack Earnhardt]

Here's a thought: The new server is smtp2 in prefs.js.  My older servers are
listed as smtp1 and smtp3, so smtp2 was probably for my @home account that I
don't have anymore.  If the redirector_type pref is appropriate for @home, then
the real nature of the bug is that the advanced screen allows cruft to remain in
the prefs file.

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

Mack, where you ever using a netscape version of mozilla or have you always been
using a mozilla version? Have you ever deleted an SMTP server before?

Bhuvan, I wonder if we aren't cleaning up the redirector pref when you delete an
SMTP server from the account manager? I'm not sure how this pref would be
getting set for non netscape builds. That seems odd. 

Comment 3

[Mack Earnhardt]

I've used NS6.0PR2 and NS6.0PR3, but nothing later.  I would have deleted the
@home server at some point, but I couldn't tell you when or which prog I used. 
For a period of time I kept both installed.

Comment 4

[Sheela Ravindran]

reassign to nbaca 

Comment 5

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

mass re-assign.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

reporter "I haven't tried to duplicate this since I originally worked around it. My feeling is that some cruft was being left in the config when I deleted an older account, and that 'slot' got reused for a new account and was hosed due to the cruft not being deleted. Can't prove it though ... I didn't have a copy of what the config looked like between deletion of the old account and creation of a new one somewhat later."

related to bug 208175, bug 106772?