124110 - don't check for new mail / get messages automatically when setup Mail & News first time

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 112356

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Pete Boyd]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8+)
Gecko/20020204
BuildID:    2002020409

when I run Mail & News for the first time and setup a new POP mail account,
after inputting all account information, Mail & News says "click Finish to save
these settings and exit the Account Wizard.". when I click Finish, Mail & News
checks the server and attempts to download new mail. it is only after Mail &
News has begun this process that I get a chance to see the 'X' stop button
(which isn't available to use at that point) or to check the 'leave messages on
server' box.
this is too presumptious. either, I use another mail client for my existing mail
and want to try out Mozilla Mail & News to compare, and don't want Mozilla Mail
& News to remove any pending messages from the server; or, I am having problems
with my existing mail client and use Mail & News until it is repaired; in both
cases I don't want to break the consistancy of the existing mail client's data
store by having messages spread across the two clients. there are other
scenarios, you get the idea.

Mail & News doesn't behave this way when I already have a Mail account and
choose to create another


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. having never used Mozilla Mail & News before, run it
2. go through the procedure to create a new POP mail account
3. 'click Finish to save these settings and exit the Account Wizard.'

Actual Results:  Mail & News saves the settings, exits from the Account Wizard
and attempts to download pending mail from the server

Expected Results:  Mail & News should save the settings, exit from the Account
Wizard and present its Start Page, then do nothing, giving the user the chance
to configure THEIR Preferences how they choose, including the option to 'leave
messages on server'

Comment 1

[Arthur]

Confirming on linux. An easy workaround is to set mozilla to offline beforehand,
but if you don't know that you won't get a chance to change your preferences..
As mozilla asks for the password, you still have a chance to back out.

Comment 2

[Pete Boyd]

>As mozilla asks for the password, you still have a chance to back out.

at some point during the the setup process I was asked to enter my password for
the POP3 server, I cant remember at what point, but I know at the time I didn't
think Mozilla had already contacted the server and was actually asking for the
password to get in, (maybe it wasn't, maybe this was just because I've asked
Mozilla to 'remember passwords', I've just tried this again with a different
computer and a fresh install of 0.9.8 and can't repeat it), but whether it had
made contact or not I definately had the impression that this was just another
part of the Account Wizard collecting information, rather than Mozilla trying to
download mail.

Comment 3

[Stefan Borggraefe]

There is now a checkbox to not download messages from the newly created account
on the last page of the New Account Wizard.

So this bug is probably a dupe of the bug that added this option. The thing is,
I can´t find this bug at the moment...

Comment 4

[Felix Miata]

Maybe bug 70532 is the one you're thinking of Stefan Borggraefe? c.f. bug
148923, which may depend on this.

Comment 5

[Stefan Borggraefe]

Felix: No, bug 70532 is about a bug when importing existing mail/news-settings
of another mail program. Bug 148923 is about profile migration from Netscape 4.x.

Comment 6

[Robin Monks]

Duping to exact bug 112356 .

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112356 ***