219996 - Hourglass cursor persists after changing folder

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Mark Thornton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 (20030901)

If you select a different folder in your account while mail is being 
downloaded, the new folder does not display and the hourglass cursor persists 
indefinitely.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Wait until mail transfer has started (scheduled every 10 minutes)
2. Select a different folder (e.g. try changing from 'Sent' to 'Inbox')
3. This is easiest if your account is the target of a mass mailing worm so 
that you have LOTS of incoming mail.

Actual Results:  
The message list and contents pane are blanked and stay that way. The cursor 
is an hour glass. Nothing changes even when the mail download completes.
If you subsequently select a menu item and then select a new folder, normal 
service is resumed.

Expected Results:  
Ideally access to the folder contents should behave normally even though new 
mail is arriving.

Comment 1

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

This was fixed in Seamonkey, and from my experience, is also fixed in
Thunderbird now. Resolving FIXED.