127868 - Need a way to close down IMAP session

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 87825

(MailNews Core :: Backend, enhancement)

Description

[Jurgen Botz]

There doesn't seem to be a way to explicitly "log out" of an IMAP session once
it's established without completely shutting down Mozilla.  It would be nice if
either there was an explicit menu option for this or the IMAP session would
close down when the last Mail window was closed.

Although in normal operation there doesn't seem to be a need for this, it would
be extremely useful to have for at least two reasons...

a) There are buggy IMAP servers which do bad things when more than one client is
active for a given user id (WUimapd with some spool formats is a major offender)
b) Debugging some kinds of client/server interactions would be a lot easier.

Other IMAP clients I've tried also suffer from this deficiency, but for them
this isn't a big deal because just exiting the client is equivalent.  With
Mozilla it seems there is not way to "exit" the mail client without completely
closing down Mozilla including all the browser windows... which is more than a
little annoying when some of those browser windows have the mail documentation
I'm referring to to debug the IMAP problem!  *grin*

Comment 1

[Sean Harding]

This is pretty similar to Bug 87825, I think...

Comment 2

[Blu3]

Does going Online->Offline->Online take care of it?  Link icon in the very
bottom right corner of mozilla next to the lock icon.

Comment 3

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Looks really like a dupe. Nobody complained at least.

pi

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87825 ***