115024 - Doesn't send unsent messages at startup / shutdown

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 232452

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Backend, defect)

Description

[Keith Jillings]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120
BuildID:    2001112009

I usually prepare mail offline, and use "send later".
When I then log on, unless I click "send now", it doesn't - although I have
"send unsent messages at logon" enabled.

I would have expected this bug to have been reported already, but a search
didn't find it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Compose mail offline, press "Send later"
2.Go online
3.Download mail.   Go offline


Actual Results:  Mail is still in outbox

Expected Results:  Sent the mail as soon as I logged on

Comment 1

[Dimitrios]

Wfm on Win98, 2001121203. See also the unconfirmed bug 108146 because it sounds
similar and uses a dated build, too.

Comment 2

[laurel]

changed from movemail to offline component

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

is this a dup/regression?

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

this doesn't belong in offline really; it should happen at startup, when we're
checking new mail, etc. You can send later w/o going offline. We do send when
you transition from offline to online.

Comment 5

[grylchan]

Reporter,
Please use a more recent build. Using 12-13-16 trunk
build on win2k this works for me.

You use the term 'log on' and I hope you don't mean
logging into your mail account (ie rentering your passwrd,etc)
as that is not the purpose of pref 'When going online
automatically send my unsent mesgs'. That pref will only
work if you go online/offline or vice versa during the same session. 
Once you quit Mozilla entirely, you will have to manually send
your unsent messages by using menu item 'send unsent mesgs'. 
They will not be 'automatically' sent when you relogin to your 
mail account.

If you still encounter a problem, please reopen this bug.
I am going to mark as works for me. thnks.

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

gary, netscape 3.x and 4.x would offer to send unsent mail when you started up
the product with unsent mail and connected to the mail server.

Comment 7

[grylchan]

Ooops, hmm..

Your right David. Tested latest 4.x build and it prompts you
with a mesg 'do you wish to send unsent mesgs'.

In 4.x if you compose a mesg and have it stored in send later folder
  -if you have pref When going online - ask me to send my unsent mesgs
   you are prompted when you toggle between online/offline AND
   when quit 4.x,restart, and login to messenger
  -if you have pref When going online - automatically send my unsent mesgs
   it automatically sends mail if you go back online OR if you quit 4.x,
   restart, and login to messenger, mail is then automatically sent.


So there are 2 things that don't work when you have mail stored in unsent
folder and you restart the browser and login to messenger:
 - Automatically send my unsent messages - mail not sent
 - Ask me if I want to send my unsent mesgs - no prompt appears
I am assuing the 3rd pref 'Do not send my unsent mesgs' works.
But I can't confirm since the first 2 don't work.

All 3 prefs do work with in the same session of mozilla.

I thought those prefs only were applied if you are using mozilla in the SAME 
session.

My bad. I goofed. Sorry reporter. Reopening bug.

Comment 8

[Keith Jillings]

Checked this with 0.9.8 - same problem.   When going online, unsent messages
remain in the outmail box, unsent.   I remember about two times out of three to
click "Send Unsent Mail"...

Comment 9

[grylchan]

*** Bug 127603 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[grylchan]

*** Bug 58593 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Rainer Bielefeld]

can confirm Problem with 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311(04)
And I have to reopen Messages with "work as new message" (or similar, sorry, I
actually do not have an English language Version) and send it.
After this, the message still is in the "unsent messages"-folder (and a copy in
"Sent".

Comment 12

[Rainer Bielefeld]

added myself to CC

Comment 13

[Petr Cerny [:hrosik]]

Confirming (NT4.0 rv:1.0rc1 Gecko/20020422)
By the way, NS 4.x also offered to send unsent messages when 
_closing_ the mail window

Comment 14

[lethin2002]

This is probably the same bug as 186370.  The behavior I observed where the
unsent message doesn't get put in the Unsent Messages folder after hitting SEND
has the consequence observed for this bug.

The lack of this feature is a relatively serious detraction from Mozilla's utility.

Comment 15

[lethin2002]

This bug is still in 1.3.1.

The behavior is that when I send a message while offline, it does not even make
it into the unsent messages folder.  It does go into the sent folder.

This is slightly different than the descriptions above, where people note a bug
where messages that *are* in unsent messages don't get sent.  What I am
reporting is that the message doesn't go into unsent messages.

This is a major bug that will impede the work of traveling laptop users
substantially.  I'd prefer prioritizing this over junk mail filtering features.

This used to work in older versions of Netscape/Mozilla, but has been broken
through the last few revisions of the tool.

Comment 16

[Alfonso Martinez]

*** Bug 214333 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

[Brian King [:kinger]]

Nominating for 1.6 ... changing description to be more relevant

Comment 18

[David :Bienvenu]

this should be fixed now - when you startup in 1.7a, we offer to send unsent
messages.

Comment 19

[Brian King [:kinger]]

What about shutdown? I have a shutdown patch I was using on another project that
could possibly be used.

Comment 20

[David :Bienvenu]

no, we don't do it at shutdown. Running urls at shutdown is painful with the
current mechanisms, because we have to block the app and pump events. So instead
of adding stuff to that approach, I'm planning on revamping the shutdown code so
that we can run urls gracefully.

Comment 21

[Brian King [:kinger]]

For the uninitiated, can you define what you mean by "running urls".

Comment 22

[David :Bienvenu]

in this context, think of it as talking to a server, which is asynchronous, and
can take arbitrarily long...

Comment 23

[Ian Jenkinson]

(In reply to comment #14)
> This is probably the same bug as 186370.  The behavior I observed where the
> unsent message doesn't get put in the Unsent Messages folder after hitting SEND
> has the consequence observed for this bug.
> 
> The lack of this feature is a relatively serious detraction from Mozilla's
utility.

Confirming with Mozilla 1.6
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115. 
To summarize the bug I have, and others are describing (I think, mostly):
Msgs in the "unsent messages" folder don't get sent either on shutdown of
Mozilla or on re-launch, even if the option is selected in Preferences > Mail &
Newsgroups > Offline and Disc Space. They risk getting sent days later. 
I use a dial-up connection (RNIS/ISDN). I have found a work-around. It is to
click "work-offline" before closing the dial-up connection. I can then close
Mozilla, and on re-opening it, Mozilla will remember the "offline" setting. Then
I open the dial-up connection and finally go "online" in Mozilla.

So much for the workaround, but it would be much nicer for Mozilla to handle the
unsent messages properly so the user can just shut everything down without thinking.

Comment 24

[David :Bienvenu]

this was fixed in 1.7 - we will prompt to send unsent messages at startup.

Comment 25

[Jason Bassford]

Can you please reference the bug/patch that fixed this?

Comment 26

[David :Bienvenu]

bug 232452

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 232452 ***