1050466 - TB 31.0 MAC GERMAN Button "Abrufen" ("Get messages") does not get new messages for all accounts

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 281417

(Thunderbird :: Toolbars and Tabs, defect)

Description

[Stefan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140716183446

Steps to reproduce:

1) Click "Abrufen" (English: Retrieve all accounts??)
2) press shift+cmd+Y   works !! same when I select from menu


Actual results:

1) Nothing
2) works !! same when I select from menu


Expected results:

All mail accounts are retrieved from Server

Comment 1

[Stefan]

The button "Abrufen" has no function.

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Stefan, thanks for filing your story.

(In reply to Stefan from comment #0)
> User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:31.0)
> Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 (Beta/Release)
> Build ID: 20140716183446
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 
> 1) Click "Abrufen" (English: Retrieve all accounts??)
> Expected results:
> All mail accounts are retrieved from Server

No, expected results are different from current design.

"Abrufen" ("Get messages", the main button on toolbar, or F5) means "Neue Nachrichten für <selected account> abrufen" ("Get new messages for <selected account>"), as seen in dynamic button tooltip (Maustip). Also der Knopf macht immer nur den gerade ausgewählten Account. There's a feature request for optionally making the main button get new messages for *all* accounts, but it's not yet implemented (alle Accounts abrufen mit dem Haupt-Knopf ist als Verbesserung in Arbeit): Bug 281417. This needs careful design for users with archived or otherwise inactive accounts, and I'm one of those users who are actually happy with status quo. You can always make any account get messages automatically every 2 minutes if you so wish...

"Alle Konten abrufen" ("Get all new messages", i.e. for all accounts) is only available from the dropdown menu (also erst aufklappen, dann im Menü anklicken), and seems to work as expected.

Seems to work as currently designed...
Also alles korrekt soweit, oder?

It would be better (even after bug 281417) to have some indication on the dropdown menu which account(s) will be polled...

Comment 3

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Unless this is a MAC only bug, which I don't think.