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       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  SMTP AUTH does not properly detect if the remote server closes the
  connection

Status in Evolution:
  Confirmed
Status in evolution package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: evolution

  If Evolution tries to connect to a SMTP server to send mail, and the
  remote server closes the connection while Evolution is busy (for
  example, if Evolution prompts the user for a password and the server
  times out), then Evolution treats the disconnection as an AUTH failure
  and will keep prompting the user for a password even though there's
  nothing listening at the other end. The only way of getting the mail
  sent is to press CANCEL and then try again with Send & Receive.

  (Related issue: this workaround only works because Evolution retries
  with the last password the user entered --- except Evolution knows
  that the password is not valid because it thinks (incorrectly) that
  the remote server rejected it. Should it retry at all or simply forget
  the password?)

  In this situation, Evolution should notice that the connection has
  been lost and reestablish it. (It would also be polite to prompt the
  user for the password *before* opening the connection, to avoid
  holding the connection open for long periods of time --- a lot of SMTP
  servers these days use very short timeouts as an antispam measure; the
  one I found this bug on is set to five seconds.)

  This is Evolution 2.22.3.1 on Heron.

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