98161 - POP3 password is requested if server is overloaded

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 91656

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, defect)

Description

[Oliver Klee]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.3+)
Gecko/20010831
BuildID:    2001083103

If the POP3 server is overloaded, Mozilla requests the POP3 password.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. In MailNews, click on GetMsg (when you know that the POP3 server is overloaded).

Actual Results:  A messagebox is displayed:
"The PASS command did not succeed. The mail server responded: System overload -
try again later."
After dismissing the messagebox, a dialog pops open, requesting the POP3
password again.

Expected Results:  After the messagebox has been dismissed, the POP3 passwort
should not get requested again---after all, there is no problem with the password.

Comment 1

[Navin Gupta]

Well, Is there anyway of detecting this difference without parsing the server
response text. What does 4x do ?

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

AFAIK: NS4.7x wants also the password again if the server sends an error message !
I think Mozilla doesn't know what the server error message means 
(is there an error messages standard ?) and displays carefully the password box.

I think this logic is correct and this bug is invalid....

Comment 3

[Markus Gerstel]

Not everything NS4.7 does is good...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 91656 ***

Comment 4

[Sheela Ravindran]

I don't think this is a dup. I need to know naving's comments on this.

Comment 5

[Navin Gupta]

Well it is a dup in one way because the pass command has succeeded but the 
server cannot process clients request because it is overloaded. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 91656 ***

Comment 6

[Sheela Ravindran]

verified as dup