Still unable to connect to 1 particular POP server
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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thunderbird (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: thunderbird
For years I have been reporting this same bug and I see, with this fresh install of Thunderbird on my Ubuntu machine, that it is STILL NOT CORRECTED. Regrettably I don't have the prior thread for this complaint so I'll have to start "fresh".
I have 5 e-mail accounts that are POP accessible. 1 at yahoo, 1 at sstar.com, 1 at comcast.net and 2 at sursum-corda.com.
Those on the sursum-corda.com server (which I operate) are inaccesible via Thunderbird. Any attempt to connect and Thunderbird sends "CAPA" and posts this pop-up message: "Sending of username did not succeed. Mail server 10.0.0.3 responded: CAPA". Precisely what it has always done.
Here is the log snippet from the POP server:
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* 08:17:07 (9) Incoming connection from 10.0.0.20 on 04/26/09.
] 08:17:07 (9) +OK Internet Rex POP3 server ready <3250.124075542
= 08:17:07 (9) AUTH <<<<<<<< "=" is an incoming command from the client
] 08:17:07 (9) -ERR Unrecognised command. <<<<<<<< "]" is a reply from the server to the client
= 08:17:07 (9) CAPA
] 08:17:07 (9) CAPA
= 08:17:16 (9) USER marc
] 08:17:16 (9) +OK Need password.
! 08:18:17 (9) Connection closed: timeout receiving command. <<<<<<60 seconds of waiting for Thunderbird
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At one time, one of the coders of Thunderbird said that he thought he had removed or altered the log-in algorithms
to correct for this anomaly; but apparently he had not, and the problem continues to this date. Note that I am able to access that pop account from ANY other e-mail client, including: The Bat!, Outlook Express, Outlook, mail2web.com, PMMail/2, PMMail Pro, etc.
It should be noted that SENDING mail from Thunderbird via the SMTP server at sursum-corda.com IS successful:
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* 08:33:14 (9) Inbound connection from 10.0.0.20 at 04/26/09.
] 08:33:15 (9) 220 sursum-corda.com Internet Rex ESMTP daemon at your service.
# 08:33:16 (9) EHLO [10.0.0.20] LOG KEYS: "*" = information
] 08:33:16 (9) 250- sursum-corda.com Hello [10.0.0.20] "]" = outbound reply
] 08:33:16 (9) 250-8BITMIME "#"=inbound command
] 08:33:16 (9) 250-SIZE
] 08:33:16 (9) 250-AUTH CRAM-MD5 LOGIN
] 08:33:16 (9) 250 HELP
# 08:33:25 (9) AUTH CRAM-MD5
# (line suppressed)
] 08:33:25 (9) 334 =-=-=-=
] 08:33:25 (9) 235 Authentication accepted.
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Can someone please take up this coding issue and get it finally corrected?
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-14-generic i686
Update: After more experimenting I was able to do a POP connection by enabling the "Use secure authentication" tick box in the server settings. Odd. None of the other servers require this, nor do any of the other clients I mentioned in my first posting. IOW, Thunderbird is the only client that requires the "secure authentication" to talk successfully to the Internet Rex POP server.
Not sure if any other action need be taken at this point in as much as very few of these POP servers are utilised. Nonetheless some coder may want to have a look at the original stated problem.