217337 - "Send later" button is not automatically appearing in compose window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 188056

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Biju]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030811 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030811 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+

Thunderbird with official offline extension

If there is no internet connection.
"Send later" button is not automatically appearing in compose window.

regardless of it is offline or online both send later, and send now option
should be always present.

People with dialup want to write all mails at once and then go online to send
them. And this is a major issue for them for switching from outlook to thunderbird


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Close all instance od thunderbird
2. Disconnect the internet connection
3. restart thunderbird
4. open compose window
5. write something
6. Try to send

Comment 1

[s.marshall]

IMO, Thunderbird should detect whether the computer is connected to the Internet
or not (without any user intervention to switch) and display the appropriate
toolbar button automatically. 

('Send Later' when you are actually connected is fairly rare behaviour, so I
don't see that it necessarily needs a toolbar button by default.)

Comment 2

[Biju]

Or it should be like this.
When you press send the mail should go to outbox
and actual send happen from outbox in background

Outlook is doing it like that, 
and people are familiar to that

Comment 3

[Marc Schumann [:Wurblzap]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> IMO, Thunderbird should detect whether the computer is connected to the
> Internet or not

IMO, it should not detect online-ness, because it can only get it right if the 
dialup happens on the local computer. In setups with external ISDN routers or 
somesuch in a small LAN Thunderbird would detect the LAN and assume the 
computer to be online. Trying to reach the internet wouldn't help either, 
because this could potentially trigger auto-dialling.

Comment 4

[Peter Kupfer]

Can't an option be added somewhere to say send immediately, send on next
connect, or send with next send & receive like in Outlook. I don't like when
e-mail leaves immediately. I am always connected so the send later button never
shows up, and I sometimes forget that TB doesn't put the e-mail in my out box
like Outlook did.

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Or it should be like this.
> When you press send the mail should go to outbox
> and actual send happen from outbox in background

Bug 229228; also see bug 82998.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 188056 ***