1820080 - Do something sensible when displaying messages that are unavailable offline

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

When offline and without messages synchronised, this code calling DisplayMessage gets an exception from the back-end, and nothing happens. The previously displayed message is still displayed. We should remove it and show a message about things being unavailable.

I don't think this is quite the same problem as the message being unavailable because it hasn't synchronised yet, but that is also problematic.

Comment 1

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

Attachment: Bug 1820080 - Restore "message unavailable offline" error message. r=#thunderbird-reviewers

This just replaces the error message as it was before, no attempt has been made to make it pretty or use sensible strings.

I have however changed how the error works, it is now dealt with at the front-end when the back-end returns NS_ERROR_OFFLINE, instead of the back-end trying to deal with it.

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/2736faf3b34c
Restore "message unavailable offline" error message. r=mkmelin

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Comment on attachment 9321246 [details]
Bug 1820080 - Restore "message unavailable offline" error message. r=#thunderbird-reviewers

[Triage Comment]
Approved for beta

Comment 4

[Daniel Darnell [:dandarnell]]

Thunderbird 111.0b4:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/rev/03381f289dee