1224457 - If storing a copy of sent e-mail to server inbox fails (e.g. due to network problems), I have no option to store locally

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 28211

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Otto Hänninen]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0
Build ID: 20151029151421

Steps to reproduce:

Configured Thunderbird to store sent replies to the same folder as where the original message was (this was much earlier and generally speaking works and is nice).

Then the problem:
Replied to a message in my inbox (located at service provide server). Sending succeeded, but then probably due to network error, saving the copy to Inbox does not succeed. After timeout I have options to retry or cancel (which means loosing my copy of the sent e-mail). Here I am at the mercy of the network situation; if the network does not return functional, I have to choose cancel.



Actual results:

Saving a copy of sent email reply to inbox failed.
I lost a copy of (an important) reply I sent.


Expected results:

Either (optimally) Thunderbird should automatically save copy of the sent message to a local folder, or at least I should have an option to request saving to an alternative location if the default location is not available.