118672 - Network Unavailable Popup Unnecessary When Online But Modem Not

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, enhancement, P4)

Description

[Felix Miata]

Setting for check mail every x minutes is enabled. Mozilla pops up a can't
connect to server dialog if left online with modem hung up and mailnews open,
which it doesn't do with only the browser open. Netscape 4.x doesn't find it
necessary to warn you that you have hung up your modem without going offline. In
this regard Netscape 4.x is better.

Comment 1

[Sheela Ravindran]

Marking this bug as a dup of more recent bug since that bug has more info. 


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 146518 ***

Comment 2

[Felix Miata]

How can you dupe a later windoze-only bug to an earlier all OS/platform bug? The
original bug here was filed based upon OS/2 behavior.

Comment 3

[Felix Miata]

Not a dupe.

Comment 4

[Felix Miata]

This must have been resolved by bug 123440, which should have been duped to
this. Works for me in OS/2 2002052708.

Comment 5

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

'mrmazda' - I'm not sure what you mean by your summary of 'Network unavailable
popup unnecessary when online but modem not'.  How can you be online when your
modem is offline?  That's contradictory.  

As for Sheela marking this a DUP of bug 146518, she was correct.  The summary of
that bug (as well as the comments therein) are much clearer.  As to your
question of 'how can you dup a later windoze-only bug to an earlier to an
earlier all OS/platform bug'.  The simple answer is that the bug wasn't changed
to reflect the fact it appears on all platforms.  I'll do that now.  This bug
isn't platform specific.

As for comment 4, it can't be resolved by 123440, because that bug still occurs
(see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123440#c15).

Comment 6

[Felix Miata]

"Network unavailable popup unnecessary when online but modem not'.  How can you
be online when your modem is offline?"

In Netscape 3, the modem is either online or not. N3 didn't need to be
explicitly told whether it was online or not. If there was a connection, it
would silently poll for new mail according to the pref setting. It wouldn't
complain about lack of connection when there was none.

In Netscape 4, the online/offline setting was provided. I never found a use for
it, and always left/leave it set to online. Like N3, it would not complain when
the time came to poll for new mail came and no connection could be found.

I can find no difference in this regard between N4 and Mozilla, except for the
idiotic popup when no connection is available at mail poll time.

I still use N3 for most email, N4 for most news. I use Mozilla mostly to
occasionally test to see if any headway has been made against the mountain of
regressions from N3 and N4's superior Mailnews usability.

What does biff mean?

Comment 7

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified.