226449 - Can't Get or Send Mail (Thunderbird stuck in offline mode)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Scott MacGregor]

From the forums, some users are getting:

network.online set to false in pref.js

This makes thunderbird start up in offline mode. One indicator of this bug is
seeing a Send Later button instead of a Send button. 

Since thunderbird does not ship with any UI Controls for offline support, there
isn't an easy way to get out of this scenario without manually fixing your prefs.

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

David says:

"maybe we're not getting the quit-application notification...
it looks like I didn't register for the xpcom shutdown notification
so if I don't get a quit-application, I'll set things to offline mode"

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: possible fix

Necko goes offline when it gets xpcom shutdown, but we don't remember offline
state changes after we get the quit-application notification.  If we don't get
a quit application notification, this could happen (not sure how that could
happen, but...). So the potential fix is to also listen for xpcom shutdown,
which I believe gets called in a first in, last out, order, and since we want
to get called before necko, we should be OK.

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

fix checked in, r/a=sspitzer, sr=mscott - an alternative fix for tbird would be
to set the "offline.startup_state" to 2 or more, so that we don't think we
should be remembering the state, in tbird's all.js