i can´t believe this bug is still not fixed…

I still have my e61 in use…now it seems some people managed to get email working properly on the e71.

what if i install the latest e61 firmware on my e61.
Would that work?

Cheers

It is absolutely absurd that this bug still exists! It makes me think that it would be easier to drive all the way from Moscow to Nokia’s headquarters in Finland and start knocking on their door than to make them listen on the Internet…

Anyway – Nokia, if you are listening: you can hire me to fix this bug or at least explain to your own developers that the standards are created to be followed not ignored.

E71-2
Product code: 0553094
FW version: 200.21.118

How come is Nokia NOT answering customer requests…. What, untill the E71 is old enought !.

Sheesh!

Just install the new firmware version starting with 200 instead of 1oo. Delete the already setup email account on your device and start new…..it will work..I had all the same problems on a brand new Nokia E71

RFC 4954 states: “After an AUTH command has been successfully completed, no more
AUTH commands may be issued in the same session.”

So an RSET shouldn’t flush the authentication, otherwise you would be able to send out only one Email in a session.

So, from this point of view, an RSET doesn’t make much sense, but shouldn’t do any harm also.

It is very sad that this bug was not fixed by now, well over a year after I discovered myself. I fully agree with you – it is a trivial change in Nokia’s source code and I am sure the developers would like to hear about it. I am not sure how to go about it, though – I do not have any contacts at Nokia myself.

I’m sure that the developers will be interested in this, the bug is simple and it should be easy to solve it. But I don’t know how to get the information to them.

If anybody else would like to send the bug to Nokia, here comes the short description:

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While sending out an Email, the E71 initially authenticates itself correctly to the mail server. But then it resets the authentication, and so the Email isn’t accepted.

Here is a (simplified) recording of the communication between the E71 and an email server:

01 Server: 220 server.mydomain.com ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU)
02 E71 : EHLO [192.168.0.8]
03 Server: 250-server.mydomain.com (…)
04 E71 : AUTH PLAIN xxxxxxxxxxx
05 Server: 235 2.0.0 Authentication successful
06 E71 : RSET
07 Server: 250 2.0.0 Ok
08 E71 : MAIL FROM: me@mydomain.com SIZE=55052
09 Server: 250 2.1.0 Ok
10 E71 : RCPT TO: someone@somewhere.com
11 Server: 554 5.7.1 : Relay access denied

You will find the bug in line 06. The E71 sends an RSET command (=Reset), which deletes the previously made authentication. Therefore the mail server rejects the mail transfer (line 11).
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If you have Postfix (V2.3.8) instead of Qmail, you can do a similar workaround. Please comment out line 2832 in file:
src/smtpd/smtpd.c

So it should look like:
/*
* Restore state to right after HELO/EHLO command.
*/
chat_reset(state, var_smtpd_hist_thrsh);
//mail_reset(state); ****COMMENT OUT THIS LINE****
rcpt_reset(state);
smtpd_chat_reply(state, “250 2.0.0 Ok”);
return (0);