RFE: Warn user when a server is down
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, enhancement)
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(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: lzqhwo, Unassigned)
Details
Steps to reproduce:
- Created a POP3 server
- Created an account in Thunderbird for the server
- Set the account to check for mail every minute
- Shut down the server
Actual results:
When unable to fetch new messages from the dead server, Thunderbird gave me no alerts or warnings.
Expected results:
Thunderbird should alert the user that it is unable to fetch messages from a dead server, e.g. via a pop-up window. It would probably be appropriate to only do this after a small number of unsuccessful attempts to connect, so as to avoid alerts for one-off network errors.
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Comment 1•1 year ago
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Shouldn't be alerts. But IIRC, you do get a (native) notification about the connection error?
After further testing, I can see that if I launch Thunderbird while the POP3 server is dead, I do indeed see a Windows notification.
However if I launch TB while the server is alive, and then I later kill the server, I will get no notification until I restart TB.
I very rarely restart TB, so the notification should be configured to trigger not only at TB launch.
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