161167 - Stop endless mail popup 'Could not connect to ...; the connection was refused'

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 123440

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Rene Pronk]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020801
BuildID:    2002080119

I have Moz configured to check my mail every minute. However, when I'm not
connected to the internet, Moz popups up every minute saying it can't connect to
my mailserver. It should this only once or in a hidden window like outlook does
with a status overview. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set check mail to every minute.
2. Open a mail window.
3. Disconnect from the internet.

Comment 1

[Zarco Zwier]

I have several email accounts of which a few daily have a bad connection to the
server. I get this message all the time, so I'd like to see this popup
disappear, but please add a little red cross to the mail account icon (the one
the has a green arrow when mail arrives) instead.

Comment 2

[Gordon Tyler]

I too would like to see this change into a non-intrusive notification. I
experienced an annoying 30 minutes just this morning when our company's internet
access went dead and Mozilla kept popping up this dialog box every few minutes,
grabbing keyboard focus from whatever application I was using at the time and
eating my keystrokes. _Very_ annoying.

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123440 ***