219246 - RFE: send & receive - establish dialup connection automatically

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 138739

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Martin Hajduch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030428
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030428

would it be possible to add funcationality to set 'default' dialup connection,
so thunderbird can establish it when no connection to internet is available (and
close the connection, if established by thunderbird, after emails are
retrieved/sent ?)
(similar to outlook)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[lhu]

How do I insert the password so I can access the server mailbox?

Comment 2

[Martin Gavelis]

Dear Martin (same Prename here ;)),

to establish an Autoconnect through TB / Win you have to go to the Network
Connections and rightclick your "freenet-Conn.". Then click "properties". in the
new box you should go to "options". There you have to disable the "Check for
Name, password, etc..."

Auto-Disconnect is not implemeted in TB at the moment afaik. But with the
"Connection Timeout" you could handle it.

*** Sorry for my bad english, but i think my bad english is better for the
community than only in german ;)

Auf deutsch:
start-einstellungen-netzwerkverbindungen rechtsklick auf "Freenet" - Eigenschaften

dann auf Optionen und dort Haken bei "Name, Passwort, Zertifkat usw. abfragen"
rausnehmen.

Automatisch trennen geht von TB aus derzeit wohl noch nicht, könnte man aber
ggf. über "Leerlaufzeit, nach der die Verbindung beendet wird" regeln. 

Comment 3

[Michael Wenger]

Dear Martin Gavelis! (In reply to comment #2)
> to establish an Autoconnect through TB / Win you have to go to the Network
> Connections and rightclick your "freenet-Conn.". Then click "properties". in
> the new box you should go to "options". There you have to disable the "Check
> for Name, password, etc..."

This solution won't work for Thunderbird 0.7x (at least 0.7.3 and 0.7+). See Bug 
256759, which was opened today by Frank.

So, you will have to create a little batch-script which establishes the 
connection, waits a little bit and then finally starts TB.

With kind regards,
Michael

Comment 4

[Larsen]

This feature is the only thing that prevents me from using Thunderbird. IMHO it would be very useful for users that don´t have constant internet connection.

Comment 5

[Larsen]

I guess this could be merged with Bug 193857

Comment 6

[Kaz Nishimura]

I vote for this one and suggest more functionality.

This setting should be available per account, so I can switch dial-up/VPN connection for each account.

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

dup to bug 138739 (not seamonkey bug)