Mangled certificate

[Jeroen T. Vermeulen]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

I'm using Thunderbird with multiple mail accounts, using SSL/TLS, on network connections that aren't always reliable. Sometimes, very rarely, Thunderbird gets confused about the certificate for a particular account. It will throw up an Add Security Exception to let me permanently accept an incorrect certificate.

If the server I connect to is at mail.abcdefghi.net port 123, the dialog shows the server location as bcdefghi.nethi.net:123. The "Permanently store this exception" checkbox is checked, and the dialog is all ready to go. If I make any change to the server location field, the button to create a security exception is grayed out—and stays that way even change the server location back to the way it was.

(Some speculation, probably useless: So it's as if a copy of the hostname had been slapped over a string buffer but shifted 6 characters to the left. That's an odd number, no pun intended. No idea how it comes into the pictures, but it would be just enough characters to accommodate a ":" plus the longest possible port number.)

On a sidenote, in spite of the "legitimate companies won't ask you to do this" wording, I'd feel safer if I wasn't taken straight to this dialog when there was a problem!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: thunderbird 3.1.6+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.42-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: e56271c144a9c8f9f675c77e2e4edb56
CheckboxSystem: 7e42599bda39ea7ff8b528272b6ef52b
Date: Thu Nov 18 21:52:21 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Jeroen,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with Thunderbird.

You made this bug report in 2010 and there have been several versions of Ubuntu and Thunderbird since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
Or, if it is still a problem, could you run the following (only once):
apport-collect 677030

and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu and Thunderbird better.

G

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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