Bug 492551

Summary: Getting often "Mail server does not support secure authentication." if connecting to my IMAP server
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Joachim Backes <joachim.backes>
Component: thunderbirdAssignee: Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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The script contains a strace run of thunderbird-bin producing "Mail server does not support secure authentication." none

Description Joachim Backes 2009-03-27 12:21:36 UTC 
Description of problem:
If I start thunderbird for connecting to my IMAP server, very often (not each time!) a message appears: "Mail server does not support secure authentication.".
But after logging in to the imap server, all thunderbird traffic is OK.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
thunderbird-2.0.0.21-1.fc10.i386

How reproducible:
Very often, but not each time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start thunderbird
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
Error Popup: "Mail server does not support secure authentication."

Expected results:
No such popup.


Additional info:
I will attach a strace of thunderbird-bin and the JPEG of the server controls.
Comment 1 Joachim Backes 2009-03-27 12:23:08 UTC 
Created attachment 336998 [details]
Server controls
Comment 2 Joachim Backes 2009-03-27 12:29:14 UTC 
Created attachment 337001 [details]
The script contains a strace run of thunderbird-bin producing "Mail server does not support secure authentication."

I killed thunderbird-bin manually after the error msg appeared.by hand
Comment 3 Joachim Backes 2009-03-30 08:37:20 UTC 
No bug! Wrong configuration of my second mail account. Please apologize!