Closed Bug 160629 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

POP/SMTP failure for misconfigured SOCKS server

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, defect)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Networking: POP
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 56629

People

(Reporter: nigels, Assigned: naving)

Details

(Whiteboard: DUPME)

I recently had a severe problem with my Mozilla mail not being able to POP or SMTP. I was getting the error message: Could not connect to server foo; the connection was refused. Turns out I misconfigured Mozilla to use AdSubtract for SOCKS on localhost:4444. But it took quite some time to realise that the SOCKS setting affects POP and SMTP. Therefore, I would suggest some more helpful diagnostic message: "the connection was refused.\nPossible problem with SOCKS configuration." - or something similar.
QA Contact: sheelar → stephend
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56629 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
v
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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