Closed
Bug 147427
Opened 22 years ago
Closed 17 years ago
RFE: automatically download all new IMAP/NNTP messages for Offline usage (pref-controlled)
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Backend, enhancement)
SeaMonkey
MailNews: Backend
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: llanero, Assigned: Bienvenu)
References
(Blocks 1 open bug)
Details
(Whiteboard: $40 donation)
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523 BuildID: 2002052309 I have marked all my folder in "Offline & Disk Usage", so they are available after I disconnect. But when I see that I have 4 mails in "folder1", they are not downloaded. When I click on "folder1", I can see mozilla mail getting the headers, and the message are not downloaded until I click on the message. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Get some mail in you imap account 2. Be sure to have "folder1" configured to be available for offline usage 3. click on "folder1" that has *new* mail. 4. You can see the headers are downloaded when you click 5. You can notice the message in downloaded when you click on it. Actual Results: I can't read my imap account offline Expected Results: All new messages downloaded (folders synchronized). Is this *feature* broken in RC3? I have not used imap in previous builds.
Updated•22 years ago
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QA Contact: gayatri → gchan
Reporter, I'm confused as to what the problem is? Using commercial branch: 20020528 on linux 2.2 I followed your steps to reproduce, I went offline, and I was able to read my downloaded mesgs in the folder marked for offline use. I clicked on each individual mesg and it downloaded fine. I then went offline (didn't download rest of the mesgs at the prompt) and it worked. I assume you are saying you can't read those mesgs while offline? Does it happen to all folders (inbox included)?
Assignee: mscott → bienvenu
Component: Mail Back End → Offline
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Comment 2•22 years ago
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I can't even tell if the reporter asked Mozilla to download his messages for offline use, either by doing a File | Offline | Download/Sync Now, or configuring mozilla to automatically download folders configured for offline use when going Offline from a mail/news window.
Sorry, I will try to explain better: I have Mozilla Mail running all the time. I have Mozilla Mail configured to check my imap account every 5 minutes. I have Mozilla Mail configured to download all folders (except Trash) for offline usage. What I miss is the option available in POP accounts: "automatically download new mail messages". I supose that if you have a folder marked for offline usage, messages in this folder get downloaded when they arrive. Perhaps I'm wrong. I didn't know you can "sync now" in the file menu. Sorry. I was expecting it to autosync as I have selected them for offline usage. The problem is that I see I have new mail, and when going to check it, I must wait for it to download in every folder I open and in every message I click. I was thinking of this feature as "automatically sync this folders". Tell me if I'm wrong. And yes, already clicked (and downloaded) messages are available offline. Thanks.
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Comment 4•22 years ago
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you just need to, in the mail window, pick the File menu, Offline sub menu, Download and Sync now, and check the mail messages box. We automatically download messages you read, for offline use if the folder is configured for offline use. You can also set it up (through Edit | Preferences | Offline & Disk Space) so that whenever you go offline (by toggling the offline icon in the bottom right corner of your mail window), we will prompt you to download any message bodies that you don't have downloaded yet.
But what I want/need is to have this message bodies downloaded automatically, as it happens with pop. So I don't need to tell it every time that I wan't to disconnect or synchronize folders. Just download to my machine as they arrive. So I can read them fast, not waiting for every mail I click to download. Why isn't the "automatically download new messages" as it happens with POP? Thanks again.
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Comment 6•22 years ago
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It sounds like you really want to be using POP. The reason we don't automatically download all messages whenever you do get new mail is that we're trying to give the user some control over when that cpu and network intensive operation happens.
Ok, I see. Can this bug be changed to a enhancement/whislist/feature request then? I would really like to autosync. This is, every time mail is checked (I have 10 new mails in inbox) and messages are moved (or not) to other folders because of the message filters, download them. I don't know how imap works, but it seems that I want the same network/cpu usage that pop generates, but with imap ability to store my mail in different folders so they are accessible (and separated) from different sources (this is, I have a mail backup). Thanks.
Reporter, if you have no objections, I will me marking this bug as dupe of bug 81303. I don't think we are ever going to add imap option 'to automatically download new mesgs' like we do for pop. And bug 81303 sounds like the closest we'll come to this..
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Comment 10•22 years ago
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Ok. Basically is what I want. Have my new mail in my computer so that I can read offline. I supose that the "Automatic download" will also download new messages in all folders. Thanks.
Comment 11•22 years ago
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Ok. just another fyi, if you have pref to 'make mesgs in my inbox available when I am working offline' set, that will do a 'auto' download of your inbox mesgs only. So when a new mesg arrives in your inbox as soon as you read it, it will be automatically downloaded. marking as dupe of 81303 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 81303 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
verified dup
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Comment 13•22 years ago
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I would like to resurrect this bug, since IMHO this would be a very useful feature. Obviously, it should be pref-controlled and off by default, but IMHO it should be available. Very often I would disconnect my laptop from the net in a hurry, forgetting to sync before doing it. Very often the net connectivity would suddenly go down and I would sit waiting for it to come back wishing my mail (at least what arrived while the connection was up) was downloaded for offline. Very often the connection would become really slow and I would sit in front of my computer waiting for a message to load, wishing it was already downloaded for me automatically as soon as it arrived. In all of the above scenarious the "autosync" feature would really help. After all, Mozilla already even has some support form HTTP prefetching, so adding mail prefetching (which is what autosync essentially is) would only be consistent. (And BTW, "just use POP" is not an answer - I want *all* my mail folders to reside on the server, where they are accessible from other machines by a bunch of means, where they are backed up, etc). I was trying to come up with a simple implementation of this feature today (I was thinking about attaching auto-sync to biff). It seems that it would only require firing of nsMsgOfflineManager::SynchronizeForOffline at appropriate place(s). Unfortunatelly I couldn't figure out what such an "appropriate place" would be. I was thinking that firing SynchronizeForOffline for every single biff (every minute in my setup) would be too inefficient, and it would be nice to only fire it once biff have determined that we indeed have some new mail. Unfortunatelly, the biff code seems to involve quite complicated sequence of indirect calls, so I couldn't figure out where the code handling "yes, we have new mail" is located. May be I should have searched for it starting from FE, not from biff - not sure. Any thought/suggestions? Thanks!
Severity: major → enhancement
Status: VERIFIED → UNCONFIRMED
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: PC → All
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
Summary: imap mail is not downloaded for Offline usage → RFE: automatically download all new IMAP/NNTP messages for Offline usage (pref-controlled)
Updated•22 years ago
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Comment 14•21 years ago
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I will donate $40 to mozilla.org when this bug is fixed.
Whiteboard: $40 donation
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Comment 15•17 years ago
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(In reply to comment #13) > I would like to resurrect this bug, since IMHO this would be a very useful > feature. That's really no reason to reopen the bug, as the original reporter already verified it *is* a duplicate. Please follow bug 81303 instead, if/when it get fixed it will happen over there.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago → 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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