[Bug 367341] [NEW] Still unable to connect to 1 particular POP server

[Prof.Arronax]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: thunderbird

For years I have been reporting this same bug and I see, with this fresh
install of Thunderbird on my Ubuntu machine, that it is STILL NOT
CORRECTED.  Regrettably I don't have the prior thread for this complaint
so I'll have to start "fresh".

I have 5 e-mail accounts that are POP accessible. 1 at yahoo, 1 at sstar.com, 1 at comcast.net and 2 at sursum-corda.com.
Those on the sursum-corda.com server (which I operate) are inaccesible via Thunderbird.  Any attempt to connect and Thunderbird sends "CAPA" and posts this pop-up message: "Sending of username did not succeed. Mail server 10.0.0.3 responded: CAPA".  Precisely what it has always done.

Here is the log snippet from the POP server:
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* 08:17:07 (9) Incoming connection from 10.0.0.20 on 04/26/09.
] 08:17:07 (9) +OK Internet Rex POP3 server ready <3250.1240755427 at mailserv>
= 08:17:07 (9) AUTH                                             <<<<<<<< "=" is an incoming command from the client
] 08:17:07 (9) -ERR Unrecognised command.       <<<<<<<< "]" is a reply from the server  to the client
= 08:17:07 (9) CAPA
] 08:17:07 (9) CAPA
= 08:17:16 (9) USER marc
] 08:17:16 (9) +OK Need password.
! 08:18:17 (9) Connection closed: timeout receiving command.    <<<<<<60 seconds of waiting for Thunderbird
===========cut============

At one time, one of the coders of Thunderbird said that he thought he had removed or altered the log-in algorithms 
to correct for this anomaly; but apparently he had not, and the problem continues to this date.  Note that I am able to access that pop account from ANY other e-mail client, including: The Bat!, Outlook Express, Outlook, mail2web.com, PMMail/2, PMMail Pro, etc.

It should be noted that SENDING mail from Thunderbird via the SMTP server at sursum-corda.com IS successful:
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* 08:33:14 (9) Inbound connection from 10.0.0.20 at 04/26/09.
] 08:33:15 (9) 220 sursum-corda.com Internet Rex ESMTP daemon at your service.
# 08:33:16 (9) EHLO [10.0.0.20]                                                                        LOG KEYS: "*" = information
] 08:33:16 (9) 250- sursum-corda.com Hello [10.0.0.20]                                                     "]" = outbound reply
] 08:33:16 (9) 250-8BITMIME                                                                                                 "#"=inbound command 
] 08:33:16 (9) 250-SIZE
] 08:33:16 (9) 250-AUTH CRAM-MD5 LOGIN
] 08:33:16 (9) 250 HELP
# 08:33:25 (9) AUTH CRAM-MD5
 #       (line suppressed)
] 08:33:25 (9) 334 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
] 08:33:25 (9) 235 Authentication accepted.
===========cut=============

Can someone please take up this coding issue and get it finally
corrected?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
 
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-thunderbird.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-14-generic i686

** Affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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Still unable to connect to 1 particular POP server
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