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Bug 243904 - evolution 1.3.92 fails to retrieve mail from fuse.net pop server
evolution 1.3.92 fails to retrieve mail from fuse.net pop server
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 242873
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
pre-1.5 (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal major
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-05-30 02:26 UTC by howarth
Modified: 2003-06-05 18:11 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description howarth 2003-05-30 02:26:37 UTC 
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Description of Problem: The fuse.net ISP of Cincinnati Bell's pop server at
pop.fuse.net works fine with Evolution 1.2.x. However the 1.3.x series,
including 1.3.92, fails to retrieve mail from this pop server.


Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. build and install evolution 1.3.92 on debian ppc sid linux
2. setup a mail account to retrieve mail from the pop.fuse.net pop server
3. click send/receive in evolution 1.3.92 to retrieve mail from the server

Actual Results:
Nothing happens other than the following text that appears in the terminal
window from which evolution 1.3.92 was started...

(evolution-1.3:14291): camel-pop3-provider-WARNING **: Bad server response:
 DELE, LIST, LAST, NOOP, RETR, RSET, STAT, TOP, UIDL or QUIT

Expected Results: I expected that pop client in evolution 1.3.92 would be
able to retrieve mail as evolution 1.2.x does with the same pop server.

How often does this happen? Everytime


Additional Information: I installed a popa3d server on the same debian ppc
sid linux box and was able to retrieve mail from that popa3d server which
leads me to believe that evolution 1.3.92 is incompatible with the pop
server in use at pop.fuse.net.
Comment 1 Jeffrey Stedfast 2003-05-30 02:59:43 UTC 
your pop server is broken. it needs to start the response with -ERR
but it is not. hence the error.
Comment 2 howarth 2003-05-30 12:04:15 UTC 
This reponse is completely unacceptable. While it is good that Ximian
wants to promote the proper implementation of POP servers you are 
effectively breaking your program for everyone using the Cincinnati Bell 
Fuse network. This is wrong headed if you can recode this to be tolerant
of such incorrect pop servers. Please rethink this approach. You do
NOT have enough market share  to be forcing ISPs to upgrade their
pop servers at your choosing!
Comment 3 Jeffrey Stedfast 2003-05-30 15:54:46 UTC 
this brokeness cannot be worked around.
Comment 4 Daniel Tessier 2003-05-30 22:38:05 UTC 
Should a new bug be opened against 1.2 then, since it accepts such  
malformed responses?
Comment 5 howarth 2003-05-31 01:41:54 UTC 
What I still don't understand is how you managed to break
accessing a pop server that, even if flawed, works with
every other known pop mail client including your previous
versions of evolution. That takes real effort.
Comment 6 Jeffrey Stedfast 2003-05-31 02:58:25 UTC 
no, because it doesn't accept the brokeness either.
Comment 7 Jeffrey Stedfast 2003-05-31 03:06:51 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 242873 ***
Comment 8 Jeffrey Stedfast 2003-06-05 18:09:58 UTC 
*** bug 244200 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Jeffrey Stedfast 2003-06-05 18:11:29 UTC 
oops, bug#244200 is not a dup of this.