195300 - can't receive mails after online-offline-online

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 192040

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, defect)

Description

[Prakash K. Cheemplavam]

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

see steps

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.connect to internet, open mozilla mail, receive mails (enter passwords)
2.disconnect internet (leave mozilla at online state)
3. wait (about half an hour? - I guess at least that amount that mozilla should
auto check for email, in my config 3min)
4. connect to internet
5. try to recieve mails

Actual Results:  
Well, pushing receive button does not initiate pop3 transfer/receiving of mails

Expected Results:  
recieve mails

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

So the browser still works after the on/off/online operation, but mail fails?

Comment 2

[Prakash K. Cheemplavam]

Yes, browser works. You can even send emails, just receiveing doesn't work. I
have to competely shutdown mozialla  (ie throw out of memory) and restart.

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

If you open Tools->Web Development->JavaScript Console (clear it of eventual
errors) and then try to reproduce the error: Is anything appearing in the
console when you click "Get Msgs" button after the reconnect?

Comment 4

[Prakash K. Cheemplavam]

not sure whether this is connected to the bug; I get following:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Invalid ClassID or ContractID" 
nsresult: "0x80570017 (NS_ERROR_XPC_BAD_CID)"  location: "JS frame ::
chrome://enigmail/content/enigmailCommon.js :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 351"  data: no]

Error: redeclaration of const MOZ_HELP_URI
Source File: chrome://help/content/contextHelp.js
Line: 1

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Invalid ClassID or ContractID" 
nsresult: "0x80570017 (NS_ERROR_XPC_BAD_CID)"  location: "JS frame ::
chrome://enigmail/content/enigmailCommon.js :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 351"  data: no]

Error: redeclaration of const MSG_FOLDER_FLAG_TRASH
Source File: chrome://messenger/content/commandglue.js
Line: 1

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

TSo those messages appear when you click the Get Msgs button?
Are you sure your version of enigmail is compatible with Mozilla 1.3b?
Does the bug also happen with a clean profile without enigmail?

Comment 6

[Prakash K. Cheemplavam]

So, I have uninstalled enigmail (it was the version designed for 1.3b according
to the website), but the bug is still there and it seems there is no output in
the javascript console referring to the bug. Have you tried it yourself? I mean
what is starnge about mozilla 1.3b is, it doesn't complain about a missing
internet connection anymore if you forget to switch it to offline. So I thought
great, at least they put in some online detection. But instead of that it seems
receiving emails is not possible in this state...

Comment 7

[R.K.Aa.]

WFM, Linux. (ADSL connection, PPPOE)

Comment 8

[Prakash K. Cheemplavam]

Perhaps its is a windows related bug only then? It is important to NOT have
internet connection in the wait time...

Comment 9

[R.K.Aa.]

Seems you're not alone

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 192040 ***