[kmail2] [Bug 337291] New: Auto detect server settings feature doesn't use selected port when creating an SMTP account

[Ian Stanistreet]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337291

            Bug ID: 337291
           Summary: Auto detect server settings feature doesn't use
                    selected port when creating an SMTP account
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: kmail2
           Version: 4.13.2
          Platform: Archlinux Packages
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: config dialog
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: ipstanistreet at gmail.com

When setting up a new SMTP account, the auto-detect feature probes the server
for settings using port 25, even when a different port has been selected in the
dialogue.

Additionally, in the default case where no other port has been selected, the
auto-detect should try the mail submission (MSA) port (587) as well as the MTA
port 25.  587 is the standard (if perhaps still less common) port for what
kmail is doing, mail submission.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
0. Get a mail account on a server that uses the MSA port 587.
1. Open Kmail configuration dialogue and go to Accounts section, Sending tab.
2. Click the 'Add' button, select SMTP and give the account a name.
3. Enter the account information.  In the Advanced tab, enter port 587.
4. Click the 'Auto Detect' button.
Actual Results:  
The auto-detect action failed to detect the correct server settings and said
that authentication is not supported by the server (my mail server doesn't
accept authentication on port 25).  Kmail didn't try the port I configured,
587.

Expected Results:  
Kmail should try to use the port that is entered by the user.  Additionally, it
should try port 587 by default as well as port 25.

When the auto-detect failed to work correctly (my server doesn't accept
authenticated mail submission on port 25) I checked my server logs and saw that
kmail was only trying port 25.

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