Bug#191847: marked as done (balsa: doesn't quit when SMTP auth
fails, doesn't show error)
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From: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
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Subject: balsa: doesn't quit when SMTP auth fails, doesn't show error
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Package: balsa
Version: 2.0.10-1
Tags: upstream sid
If you have enabled a username and a password in
Settings -> Preferences -> Mail servers -> Outgoing Mail -> User,
then balsa tries to authenticate with the remote mail server.
There are a few warts with this, that should be fixed:
- If the remote mailserver doesn't offer the AUTH extension, but
a username is filled in, balsa will simply not authenticate and
will just try to send the message.
This is wrong. There should probably be an option just above "user"
like:
[ ] use SMTP authentication (username/password)
If this is not enabled, never try to use authentication. If this
/is/ enabled, and the remote server doesn't support the AUTH
ESMTP extension, balsa should pop up a window telling you
something like
Could not login to the remote SMTP server - it
doesn't appear to support the AUTH extension.
- If the authentication fails, balsa will just go ahead and try to
send the message anyway. Which will probably result in a
'relaying denied' message. Which, by the way, is not shown to the
user anytime. If authentication fails, balsa should again show
you a message in a window like
Could not authenticate to the remote mailserver (login failed).
The error message was: 502 bla bla bla
Mike.
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Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 00:03:20 +1000
From: Andrew Lau <netsnipe@users.sourceforge.net>
To: 191847-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: balsa: doesn't quit when SMTP auth fails, doesn't show error
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Dear Miquel,
Upstream believes that this problem has now been satisfiably resolved.
Cheers,
Andrew "Netsnipe" Lau
------- Additional Comment #3 From Pawel Salek 2005-05-15 21:54 UTC -------
I can confirm this problem (partially): the libesmtp engine does not
signal a failed authentication - the reason for this behavior is that
failed authentication does not mean relaying will be denied. I can
imagine that this information should be passed to the user - this can be
helpful when explaining further problems. Would an dialog box with
message: "authentication was attempted but failed - continuing anyway"
be a sufficient solution?
More comments:
1. I see nothing wrong with silently continuing when no AUTH is
available - perhaps the server decided to trust the client on other
basis?
3. Current balsa passes though the "relay failed" message to the user
now.
<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D112284>
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