Bug 706604 - thunderbird misconfigures smtp for new accounts
Summary: thunderbird misconfigures smtp for new accounts
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: thunderbird
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-05-21 14:37 UTC by Pavel Šimerda (pavlix)
Modified: 2018-04-11 12:24 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-12-07 19:48:13 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
automatically configured seznam.cz settings (100.04 KB, image/png)
2011-08-29 09:51 UTC, Matěj Cepl
no flags Details
automatically configured gmail.com settings (100.48 KB, image/png)
2011-08-29 09:51 UTC, Matěj Cepl
no flags Details

Description Pavel Šimerda (pavlix) 2011-05-21 14:37:50 UTC
Description of problem:

Mozilla Thunderbird has a great feature of simple mail configuration. User enters mail account and thunderbird scans both its database and common smtp/imap server names and automatically configures recieving and sending servers.

But it misconfigures the sending server for new accounts (except the first one) and mixes smtp server configuration across accounts.

This breaks configuration with modern mail systems that use DKIM (or SPF) and require correct smtp settings.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

3.1.10-1.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Setup the first IMAP mail account using autoconfiguration.
2. Setup the second IMAP mail account using autoconfiguration.
3. Open the second mail account settings.
  
Actual results:

Second mail account is set up to use first mail account's SMTP server.

Expected results:

Second mail account should be using its own SMTP server.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2011-08-29 09:51:04 UTC
Created attachment 520330 [details]
automatically configured seznam.cz settings

I had to do a bit of intervention, thunderbird automatically insisted on using POP3. With just a manual switch to IMAP protocol and imap.seznam.cz server, the rest was autoconfigured (particularly I haven't do anything about sending messages).

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2011-08-29 09:51:45 UTC
Created attachment 520331 [details]
automatically configured gmail.com settings

Comment 3 Matěj Cepl 2011-08-29 09:53:08 UTC
Thanks for the bug report.  We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue.

I cannot reproduce here with thunderbird-6.0-1.fc16.x86_64 (see the attached screenshots). So, we need more information to be able to reproduce the issue here.

1) Are you able to reproduce this when running thunderbird in the safe mode (i.e., run it with parameter -safe-mode on the command line)
2) Are you able to reproduce the problem with the upstream binary from
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/?
3) Are you able to reproduce the problem with a fresh profile?

Thank you for your cooperation and helping to make Fedora more awesome!

We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information.

Thanks in advance.

Comment 4 Pavel Šimerda (pavlix) 2011-08-29 10:04:49 UTC
For now I can just add I was using thunderbird with accounts that are not in the „big list“, so it had to guess domains like mail.example.com.

I'll come back to this bugreport later.

Comment 5 Pavel Šimerda (pavlix) 2011-09-09 00:40:18 UTC
I can't reproduce either, so it looks like this issue is fixed.


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