194566 - If sending to a newsgroup is cancelled before the message has been delivered the message send button becomes unresponsive.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Networking: SMTP, defect)

Description

[farcusnz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

Sometimes when sending a message to a newsgroup the message does not seem to be
ablt to contact the smtp server and sits there continually trying to send. There
is no time out or anything.
If I hit the cancel send button the message stops trying to send, however, the
throbber continues to throb and the status bar at the bottom continues to rotate
(or however you descirbe this).
If I try to hit the send button on this message to have another go at sending it
the send button is totally unresponsive. I have to save the message, close the
whole Mozilla application and re-open it and then try sending it again. 9 times
out of 10 this solves the problem.
I haven't seen this behaviour on a mail account - only one of my news accounts.
However, that is not to say that the behaviour does not occur on my other
accounts - I just haven't seen it yet.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Compose news message
2.Hit send; spellcheck is activated; spellcheck is completed; hit send; message
tries to go but cannot. 
3. Hit cancel; try to hit the send button again; send button is unresponsive
4. Save message; close Mozilla; reopen Mozilla; send message

Comment 1

[johnny]

I have the same problem with version 1.7.2.

I'm sure some of this problem is with my ISP, bellsouth.net.

When I try to send to bellsouth's server, and the message won't send, I hit
cancel, and get this message:
There was an error copying the message to the sent folder.  Retry?

I shut down all programs, to restart, and get this message:

The message was sent successfully, but could not be copied to your sent folder.

I hit cancel, and Mozilla shuts down with no error message.

It appears it was trying to send the message all the time, even after I canceled
the message.

I had the same problem with Netscape 7.02, except instead of closing like
Mozilla, I would get the error message:  

This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.

I got tired of the problem with Netscape, and decided to try Mozilla, and the
problem is the same.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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