Closed Bug 319366 Opened 19 years ago Closed 18 years ago

Misleading error message

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Message Compose Window
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 227995

People

(Reporter: elharo, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051130 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.5 RC1

This bug is exposed by 206408, but is not the same thing. When Thunderbird hangs while trying to copy a message to the Sent folder as in 206408, one can quit Thunderbird. In this case one is presented with a dialog saying "Message has not been sent. Do you want to save the message in the drafts folder?"

This message is inaccurate. The message more often than not has been sent but has not been saved in the Sent Folder. This inaccurate message could cause someone to later resend a message that has already been sent.

Thunderbird needs to distinguish the cas of a message not being sent from it merely not being saved. 

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
"Message has not been sent. Do you want to save the message in the drafts folder?"

Expected Results:  
"Message has not been saved. Do you want to quit anyway?"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 227995 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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