103278 - Opening IMAP Mail via non-permanent connection takes forever

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[Marian]

When I open an IMAP mail account and leave the mail window untouched for a
while, my dial-up router closes the internet connection.

When I then select a message in the list in order to let it be displayed in the
message pane, the message won't be displayed.

The load indicator (mozilla logo top right) indicates load in progress infinitely.

Is it possible that mozilla doesn't recognize that there is no connection open
when it sends the IMAP commands?

I haven't checked this with POP...

Comment 1

[Keyser Sose]

Marking these all WORKSFORME sorry about lack of response but were very
overloaded here. Only reopen the bug if you can reproduce with the following steps:

1) Download the latest nightly (or 0.9.6 which should be out RSN)
2) Create a new profile
3) test the bug again

If it still occurs go ahead and reopen the bug. Again sorry about no response
were quite overloaded here and understaffed.

Comment 2

[Karen Huang]

reopening this bug since this problem is still occurring on the current trunk 
build

Comment 3

[Karen Huang]

And, this should be dup of bug 81208

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 81208 ***

Comment 4

[Karen Huang]

Verified as dup.

Comment 5

[benc]

This isn't the same bug.

Bug 81208 is about a timeout when trying to connect a creation.

This bug is about having an application level-timeout when an existing
connection fails.

Comment 6

[simon annear]

Marking this as worksforme

Using Moz 1.8a6 build 20050105

Testcase that I have used is:

1. open up connection to mail server (ssh tunnel)
2. open mozilla and read mail
3. let ssh connection timeout (same as if dialup router disconnected)
4. click on another mail message

Result - after approx 1 second get a messagebox "Could not connect to mail
server xyz; the connection was refused"