1425439 - Send selected unsent mails from Outbox

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 89665

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Gisbert]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20171206182557

Steps to reproduce:

Created 300 mails and said "Send later".
The mails went into the outbox.
In outbox, I selected 50 mails and clicked "Send now".


Actual results:

TB attempted to send all 300 mails.
After about 80 mails were sent, there was an error-message: 
smtp-server refusing to accept more.

This error-message blocks TB completly, it is not possible to stop further sending attempts.

Only way out: kill TB in task-manager.



Expected results:

1. Only the selected mails should be sent, all unmarked mails should be left in Outbox.
2. The error-message should get a button "Stop sending".
3. The error-message should get a field "retry every after xx minutes with yy mails"

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

> This error-message blocks TB completly, it is not possible to stop further sending attempts.
Is a different issue which I am sure has a bug report

Bug 89665 covers the summary of this bug report

Comment 2

[Gisbert]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #1)
> > This error-message blocks TB completly, it is not possible to stop further sending attempts.
> Is a different issue which I am sure has a bug report
> 
> Bug 89665 covers the summary of this bug report

I found 

Bug 794595 - Send Unsent Messages - Dialog Box is modal, unnecessarily

but even if the error-box would be non-modal, 
I suggest at least an additional command button "Cancel sending" or "Stop trying to send".