168234 - Request persistent mail checking feature

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 138960

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Graeme Humphries]

This bug is filed in response to the discussion on bug 14630, to address the
need to have persistent mail checking in Mozilla. It seems to be the agreement
that the feature is necessary, just not how it should be implemented.

Suggestions include modification to the current quicklaunch system to allow more
of Mozilla to remain resident in memory (upon user preference of course) when
all windows are closed. This is my preferred method, since it will probably
solve bug 147254 as well.

Comment 1

[Kevin Wade]

Oops.  Thats bug 146340 for those of you playing at home.

Comment 2

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Can you clarify, here?

Are you asking for a stand-alone app to check mail?  Bug 11056.

Are you wanting mail to be checked if you don't have mail running?  Bug 71105.

There is also a turbo/quick-launch integration bug out there, but I can't find
it right now.

Comment 3

[Graeme Humphries]

I think (at least from the discussion on bug 146340) that the idea was that some
apps need to keep running even when all their windows are closed (like mail and
the download manager)... You know, like how quicklaunch *used* to work. Just to
keep the running in the system tray, performing their tasks that have been
assigned them. I guess this would be a dup of the problems described in bug
71105,  although the cause on Win32 is described in bug 146340. It used to work,
and now it doesn't, and the people responsible for quicklaunch are unwilling to
revert the code, apparently because of underlying memory leak issues in the browser.

So, I'm not sure whether this is a dup or not, since it seems to me that other
platforms haven't had this feature yet, whereas on Win32 the feature worked, but
was just (purposely) broken. If you can dig up the turob/quicklaunch integration
bug, that would probably make the most sense for what we're looking for.

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 138960, "Have mail checked when quick-startup is on".

Comment 5

[Graeme Humphries]

Yep, that bug 138960 seems like exactly what I want, marking this as dup and
closing.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138960 ***

Comment 6

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verified dup