182611 - Unsent messages marked sent

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 122521

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Achim]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.78 (Windows 2000; U) Opera 6.05  [de]
Build Identifier: Mozilla 1.0.0 Gecko/20020530

Unsent messages marked are marked sent and transferred to sent folder when our ISDN connection fails to open and Mozilla idles for a while. No error message is shown. We use Norton AntiVirus 2000, no email checking icon (which usually appears when checking)is shown.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Close ISDN router (disable any connection)
2.Send mail
3.
Actual Results:  
Messages are transferred to sent folder and are marked sent

Expected Results:  
show error message stating that there is no mails erver available

Windows 2000, Zyxel ISDN Router Prestige 128

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Achim, when you say "marked sent" what exactly do mean?  This could be a 
duplicate of bug 122521, but I think it's more likely a dupe of bug 154184; that 
bug has been fixed as of 1.4b.

Can you try a current build of Mozilla (such as the 1.4rc build) and determine 
if you still see this problem?

Please mark this bug as the appropriate duplicate, or as "Resolved|WorksForMe", 
or say something if it is still a problem for you with a current build.

Comment 2

[Achim]

I don`t think it`s a duplicate of 154184, but there are some similarities to bug 
122521. I figured out that it has notghing to do with our router (changed to DSL 
by now and could reproduce it on a modem connected computer).


I had the same problem again last week:


A friend of mine got a new email account at freenet.de. This ISP requires SMTP 
authentication. For some reason I did not correctly configure the outgoing 
server settings, but when sending emails, I did not receive any error messages 
and the mail was transferred to the "sent" folder (this is what I meant by 
"marked sent"), hence, I thought that the mails were delivered. It turned out 
that they were not.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Given that extra information, I believe this is a dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 122521 ***