126140 - [RFE] Asynchronous (Background) Mail Sending

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 440794

(MailNews Core :: Backend, enhancement)

Description

[Sam Johnston]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204
BuildID:    2002020406

It would be great if sending mail were asynchronous - ie you click send and the
window vanishes straight away, and a thread runs off in the background sending
your mail and updating your sent messages folder. Even on fast networks reverse
DNS can slow SMTP servers down significantly which makes Mozilla appear much
slower to end users. Saving mail to IMAP folders also takes time. I suspect this
would not be too difficult to implement, and would make the browser much more
attractive as a mail/news client.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send mail
2. Observe progress bar instead of background sending


Actual Results:  Progress bar appeared, message takes upto 30sec to send.

Expected Results:  Message composition window vanishes immediately and I am
notified later if there were delivery problems (perhaps when I close the browser).

This may want to be an option, although it probably wants to be enabled by default.

Comment 1

[Olav Vitters]

related: bug 76691

Moving to Mail Back End and confirming

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

sending is asynchronous today. You can go to another window and do whatever you
want. We aren't blocking the UI at all.

We used to hide the compose window and everyone hated it so we moved back to 4.x
behavior and show you the compose window with the progress in front of it. 

Comment 3

[Olav Vitters]

*** Bug 165542 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 82998.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

I'm changing this from WONTFIX to duplicate of bug 440794, because it's pretty clear that this is going to be fixed.