Re: hotmail sends blank messages from iceweasel

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2009-08-27 21:51 +0200, Chris Lale wrote:

> Hotmail does not like Iceweasel. If you send a message, using Lenny or Squeeze,
> the whole body is empty. The text you entered is missing. You can check this by
> looking in your "Sent" folder.

Out of curiosity, why are you using Hotmail?

> I recently found a solution at
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/iceweasel-3.0.5-hotmail-not-working-until-changing-general.useragent.extra.firefox-696696/
>
> You need to change the user agent setting in Iceweasel from "Iceweasel" to
> "Firefox":
> Just write about:config in the url and then search the name:
> "general.useragent.extra.firefox"
> Double click the Iceweasel/#.#.# under Value and change the Iceweasel portion to
> Firefox.
>
> eg mine now reads
> general.useragent.extra.firefox   user set   string   Firefox/3.0.6

Known problem, Hotmail's User-Agent sniffing is totally broken.  Here
are some relevant bugs from Mozilla's bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457791
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464074
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334967

Sven