Advanced.mailftp

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The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is advanced.mailftp.

This article describes the preference advanced.mailftp. To add, delete, or modify this preference, you will need to edit your configuration — do not edit this article.

1 Background
2 Possible values and their effects
- 2.1 True
- 2.2 False
3 Caveats
4 UI
- 4.1 Mozilla Suite
5 Previous effects
6 First checked in
7 Has an effect in
8 Related bugs
9 Related preferences
10 External links

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Background

The FTP specification dictates that users must give a username and a password when logging in to a server. If a server allows anonymous logins, clients usually log in with the username “anonymous” and a password corresponding to an email address. This preference lets you determine whether to use the default “mozilla@example.com” as the password, or to send the contents of the preference network.ftp.anonymous_password.

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Possible values and their effects

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True

Send the value of network.ftp.anonymous_password as the password for anonymous logins.

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False

Send “mozilla@example.com” as the password for anonymous logins. (Default)

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Caveats

This preference dates to at least 1999, though there was a brief period of time before 2001-09-10 when this preference didn’t function as it should have (see bug 57763).
Prior to the fix for bug 101027, the default password was simply “mozilla@”, causing errors with some FTP servers that rejected it as an invalid email address. “example.com” was chosen as the domain for the default password because it’s reserved but valid.

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