Mozilla 1.7.13

[Clint Tinsley]

> Clint Tinsley wrote:
> > I need to be able to use latest Mozilla 1.7.13 suite on Dapper 
> > 6.0.6 as it is the only email client that seems to work with MSN 
> > on linux (implementation of the SA protocol).  Older Thunderbird 
> > (pre 1.5) worked but 1.5 and later, including seamonkey, do not 
> > with MSN, even though they support the SA (secure authentication) 
> > protocol (cannot authenticate to MSN).  When I run the 
> > ./mozilla-installer as root, it cannot connect to the display and 
> > gives a gtk error (no specifics).  AFAIK, I have resolved all the 
> > library issues.  Would appreciate any help that I could get on 
> > this.  Thanks.
 
> 1: Is there any reason for not using the version of mozilla in the 
> universe repositories? I know it gives the version number as 
> 1.7.12, I'm presuming the security fixes have been backported.

I went the 1.7.12 from universe route with Synaptic package manager and got the mail client to work but it gives me an alert message that says "Mail server does not support secure authentication."  If I turn off SA, then it gets the normal password rejection.  Doesn't make sense at all as the reason for using Mozilla is the secure authentication is required for the mail service yet Mozilla is reporting the Mail server doesn't support secure authenication when using this version.

> 2: Why are you installing as root? You know Ubuntu uses sudo by 
> default? My guess is that's where the problem is.

I am sudo'ing to root and then running the installer but that route is now closed since I have 1.7.12 on the system now and the installation paths are different with this ubuntu version than with the standard mozilla 1.7.13 build.  The issue now would be that without some serious sluething, removal of Mozilla 1.7.12 would restore the system to it's pre-installation of 1.7.12 state.

Any thoughts?

Clint

At a standstill on this again now.