126304 - offline:failing to login to your webmail act prevents other imap acts from downloading

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Backend, defect)

Description

[grylchan]

Spun off bug 115405.

If I have imap and webmail act. Both have folders
configured for offline use. But I login only to
imap mail acount, I am prompted to download
webmail. If I decline then the result is
imap folder is not downloaded and I'm not offline.
Nothing happens.

expected: imap folders configured for offline use should be downloaded
          even if I decline to login to my webmail. As is the case
          if I have the same situation above but instead of webmail
          act, I have a 2nd imap act instead.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

the reason is that cancelling web mail generates an NS_BINDING_ABORTED, which is
the same error code we use when the process is stopped, and the offline backend
can't tell the difference. I'm not sure why web mail imap would use a different
error code for cancelling logon from normal imap.

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

"web mail imap" refers to AOL/Netscape IMAP, which used a custom authentication mechanism, which we no longer support. Marking WFM.