116852 - Error Message "Could not connect to server; the connection was refused" every 1 minutes (check time for new massages)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 123440

(MailNews Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Rainer Schnell]

Hallo,

when I downloaded my messages I use to turn off the internet connection. In the
server settings of my mail account I told mozilla 0.9.7 to look each 1 minute
for getting a new message from the server:

When I turned the internet connection off each 1 minute I get the error message
"Could not connect to server; the connection was refused". In Netscape 4.77
(engl) I used before I worked in the same way AND I NEVER got a message like
this ! - I looked at your preferences for a switch to stop getting this message
but I don´t find one.

With the best wishes

Rainer Schnell

Comment 1

[Dimitrios]

Could confirm this bug on build 2002010303, Win98, for one simple reason: I'm
trying to find a similar one in Bugzilla for ages. NS4x behaviour was exactly
what reporter described. The only obvious workaround for Mozilla is to go
offline but that wasn't needed in communicator.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Activate biff ("Check for new messages every 1 minutes")
2. Have your dial-up connection open. 
3. After a while, close dial-up connection and do not switch Mail client to
offline state.
4. Wait one minute

Actual results:
Mozilla tries to connect to pop server and (obviously) fails, popping the
associated message.

Expected results:
Mozilla detects that there's no tcp/ip connection (how?) and doesn't try to get
messages from server.

Still I'm not sure about the validity of this bug, the only thing I know is that
Communicator's behaviour was radically different. Someone please explain.

Comment 2

[Dimitrios]

It proved that this bug was for real, although a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123440 ***

Comment 3

[Karen Huang]

Verified as dup.