1810513 - Fails on scheduled emails using Send Later add-on due to bugs in Thunderbird

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[lm2]

Attachment: Capture d’écran du 2023-01-16 13-22-13.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:98.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/98.0

Steps to reproduce:

hi guys

tried to put that on a forum but the https://forums.mozillazine.org/ could not go ahead in my registration (see attached screenshot)

so Here is my little participation to bugs/issue blower :

since a year I use thundie, without problem, until this :
since few months I use the very sensitive and asked scheduled emails. everything was correct until few weeks ago.
Things have changed :
[quote]
[quote]Envoyer Plus Tard : Le dossier /Drafts est peut être endommagé. Veuillez afficher ses propriétés et cliquez sur « Réparer le dossier ». Lire https://extended-thunder.github.io/send-later/#corrupt-drafts-error. Plus précisément, il semble que le message « =NNNNN= » (identifiant : <[e-mail]>) ait déjà été envoyé, mais il existe toujours dans le dossier Brouillons. Cela peut être révélateur ou non d'un problème plus grave. Vous pouvez simplement essayer de supprimer (ou de reprogrammer) le message en question. Envoyer plus tard sautera ce message, mais continuera à traiter vos autres brouillons programmés lorsque vous fermerez cette alerte.
Afficher cet avertissement la prochaine fois
[/quote]
sorry, message is in french, I cant have it in english, and the sendlater addon website doesnt brings that one in eng.

plus :

[quote]Votre message a été envoyé, mais une copie n’a pas été placée dans votre dossier envoyé (Envoyés) en raison d’un problème d’accès au réseau ou au fichier.
Vous pouvez recommencer ou enregistrer le message en local dans Local Folders/Envoyés [e-mail].[/quote]

question would be, how to solve those two issues, whom make things :
a/ schedule of all emails fails because the failure blocks everything, even following ones, until the users validate error messages. Problem : they are scheduled emails while nobody is using the computer for hours..... they are supposed to be sent automatically, not handly ;)
b/ tracabiity : because they are finally not sent at the specified hour ; and also I've lost all trace of sent emails wrote for hours. I dont even know what does it looks like !
c/ error messages are in popup, whom come back eveery minute, even interrupting the redaction of this message, several times...

So, I investigated, falling on the following surprises :
even for the scheduled bug, I saw that a bug could stay longer than ten years, without being fixed??!

[quote]C'est celui ci: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565670

Et le problème arrive tellement souvent qu'il a droit à une entrée dans la FAQ de xscreensaver:

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#popup-windows

Et chez Thunderbird il y a (ou il y avait?) exactement le même problème pour Windows pour des raisons différentes:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135563
[/quote]

sans parler de celui pour send later (que j'utilise chaque jour) qui me handicape quelque part :
[quote]
Unfortunately we can't do anything about this until the Thunderbird developers fix this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749654[/quote]

I dont even know how the most used emails client is concerned by those issues... 2023, make it MOVE !! :D

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

In bugzilla we create one bug per issue. And it sound like everything you have cited so far is already reported

• bug 749654 for the send later issue
• bug 135563 isn't filed as a Thunderbird bug
• Bug 565670 for the xscreensaver issue

Does this cover all your issues? If yes then we can close this bug report. Note, you can state reports as bug nnnnn and bugzilla will link them for us.

tried to put that on a forum but the https://forums.mozillazine.org/ could not go ahead in my registration (see attached screenshot)

Thunderbird support is offered at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/thunderbird

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Hello lm2, unfortunately your bug report is neither complete nor comprehensible.
In addition, and intersecting with what Wayne said (*), if you think that you have found a new genuine bug in Thunderbird:

Please follow the bug writing guidelines:

• Bug reports in English only. Kindly state where the quotes are coming from, push them through an online translation, and put them into the appropriate structure of a bug report (see below).
• For quoting, kindly use > character in front of lines or paragraphs (use preview above comment input field to check if things look right).
• Use Bug 1234 syntax in comments for auto-linkification.
• Steps to reproduce: Numbered list of steps / actions within Thunderbird which will reproduce the bug
• Actual result: What happened (describe what's wrong)
• Expected result: What should have happened (describe the correct outcome)

*: mid-air collision

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Sorry, but this bug report is incomplete.