Closed Bug 199784 Opened 21 years ago Closed 20 years ago

POP stops reporting new mail after server timeout

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 127461

People

(Reporter: 6e7an0n, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030329
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030329

Mozilla polls POP server, POP server connection times out, then Mozilla stops
checking for new mail.  Restart Mozilla and find new email that's several hours old.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Check for POP mail
2. Make Mozilla time out trying to reach POP server (not sure how many times)
3. Send email to POP account
4. No new email notification

Actual Results:  
No mail notification until I restart Mozilla.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have recovered.
Reporter (6e7a@bigfoot.com): a patch has been checked in to address bug 127461.  
Is your symptom now also fixed, using a current nightly build?  If so, please 
mark this bug as a duplicate of that one.
No response from reporter, duping.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 127461 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Component: MailNews: Notification → MailNews: Message Display
QA Contact: stephend → search
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