160484 - Mozilla mail should hang-up the dial up line when going offline

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, enhancement)

Description

[Daniel Hrbac]

Mozilla mail should be able to hang up the phone dial-up line after it goes offline.

Comment 1

[laurel]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 109950 ***

Comment 2

[laurel]

Oops, sorry I'm in the wrong bug report. Reopening.

Comment 3

[Henrik Lynggaard Hansen]

confirming as I have found no dupe

Comment 4

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

mass re-assign.

Comment 5

[Richard]

Similar behaviour has been requested on closing FF.   <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=106044" >See bug 106044</a>.  

What is the point of the "Offline" function in TB if it doesn't actually take the user offline?

I've posted a fuller entry in bug 106044. I'm not a programmer, so will let others more experienced than me to decide if this is a duplicate of 106044 or perhaps they are similar but subtley different?

Comment 6

[Michael Fenton]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Similar behaviour has been requested on closing FF.   <a
> href="show_bug.cgi?id=106044" >See bug 106044</a>.  
> 
> What is the point of the "Offline" function in TB if it doesn't actually take
> the user offline?
> 
> I've posted a fuller entry in bug 106044. I'm not a programmer, so will let
> others more experienced than me to decide if this is a duplicate of 106044 or
> perhaps they are similar but subtley different?
> 

I think that auto-disconnect is a serious omission from mozilla / thunderbird. Security is an every-increasing problem. We are exhorted to defend and never leave an open modem line. Please give this a little more priority - if outlook express can provide this, then thunderbird should not fail in this area.

Comment 7

[supporter]

> I think that auto-disconnect is a serious omission from mozilla / thunderbird.
> Security is an every-increasing problem. We are exhorted to defend and never
> leave an open modem line. Please give this a little more priority - if outlook
> express can provide this, then thunderbird should not fail in this area.

Absolutely my opinion! I could help out with a windows executable that could do the dialup/hangup-stuff, but I am not able to integrate this in mozilla/thunderbird/firefox code. So if you are interested I could do the windows API things, but anyone else have to integrate this into the mozilla code...

Comment 8

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 9

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"