Bug 116337

Summary:	Incorrect discovery of POP server capabilities
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Dan <DanMoinescu>
Component:	pop3	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bjoern
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	pcap file listing the client-server dialog during the discovery Screen shot displaying the "discovered" capabilities

Description Dan 2005-11-14 12:39:42 UTC

Version:           Kmail 1.8.3 (Using KDE 3.4.3-1.0.fc4.kde) (using KDE KDE 3.4.3)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs
OS:                Linux

When clicking on "Check what the server supports" for a POP account, kmail reports "Clear text" and "APOP" as supported authentication mechanisms, even though Ethereal shows that the server doesn't reply to the CAPA request (actually, replies with an authentication-needed error message).

If I select APOP from the available list, kmail subsequently can't authenticate, stating that "the server may not support APOP, even though it claims to support it".

Comment 1 Dan 2005-11-14 12:44:48 UTC

Created attachment 13436 [details]
pcap file listing the client-server dialog during the discovery

Comment 2 Dan 2005-11-14 12:46:48 UTC

Created attachment 13437 [details]
Screen shot displaying the "discovered" capabilities

Comment 3 Robert Wenzlaff 2007-01-03 13:44:21 UTC

I get same with 1.9.1.

"Check What Server Supports" gives me just "PLAIN" highlighted.

Then connecting to server I get a "Server does nor Support PLAIN method" dialog.

Comment 4 Björn Ruberg 2009-12-24 01:09:43 UTC

Is this still a problem in KDE 4.3?

Comment 5 Laurent Montel 2015-04-12 10:18:41 UTC

Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report.

KMail2 was released in 2011, and the entire code base went through significant changes. We are currently in the process of porting to Qt5 and KF5. It is unlikely that these bugs are still valid in KMail2.

We welcome you to try out KMail 2 with the KDE 4.14 release and give your feedback.