227735 - Thunderbird does not close gracefully under Linux

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Ben Jackson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 (20031205)

I have a problem when I close Thunderbird (version 0.3 or 0.4) under Redhat 7. 
If I close using the menu option File->Quit, it takes several seconds to close,
which is not a big deal.  If I close it by clicking on the X in the upper right
corner of the window, there is a brief pause and then I get a dialog window
titled "Question" that reads:

The window "Inbox for [e-mail] - Mozilla Thunderbird" is not
responding. Force this application to exit? (Any open documents will be lost.)

With two buttons: Kill & Cancel.

If I ignore it or click cancel, the application will close after several more
seconds.  If I click kill, it closes quickly, but presumably not properly. 
Thunderbird does not need to be actively checking for mail to cause the problem,
however, if I close the application immediately (within a couple seconds) after
opening it, it closes promptly.  I have two accounts set up.  One is a POP3
(yahoo) account.  The other is an IMAP account for which the server is usually
kind of slow.  I am suspicious that it is waiting to close the IMAP connection
before exiting, which is great, but it seems like the kill/cancel window
shouldn't come up.

FWIW, I am running thunderbird on a 500MHz PIII with a 256Kbps DSL line.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
(In my set up)
1. Open thunderbird
2. Wait any length of time greater than a few seconds.
3. Close thunderbird

Actual Results:  
See details.

Expected Results:  
See details.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Ben Jackson, are you still having problems with this bug with TB 1.0?
If not, please mark this bug:   Resolved | WorksForMe