Open Bug 228832 Opened 21 years ago Updated 2 years ago

When receiving mail from multiple POP accounts simultaneously, only a single "Receiving message X of Y" should be displayed

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, enhancement)

x86
All
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

REOPENED

People

(Reporter: PeterCutts, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031210

When Mozilla is receiving mail on multiple pop3 accounts, the message on the
status bar (saying "Receiving message X of Y") flicks between the accounts
displaying only the status of the last account.  
For me, recieving messages from 6 pop accounts renders the current status
message almost useless.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up multiple pop3 accounts under mail.
2. Make sure all of these accounts have varying numbers of mail in them.
3. Press the "Get Msgs" button
4. Watch the status bar on the bottom of the mail window

Actual Results:  
The message on the status bar (saying "Receiving message X of Y") flicks between
the accounts displaying only the status of the last account.  

Expected Results:  
It would be more sensible to display totals for all accounts in this message. 
Or perhaps, as an alternative, multiple status messages could displayed across
the status line (not quite so tidy, but possibly easier to implement)
*** Bug 228875 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Severity: minor → enhancement
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
This bug prescribes a different solution to the same problem discussed in bug 66860.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 66860 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Summary: When recieving mail from multiple POP accounts simultaniously, only a single "Receiving message X or Y" should be displayed → When recieving mail from multiple POP accounts simultaniously, only a single "Receiving message X of Y" should be displayed
I don't think this is a dupe of bug 66860. The description here specifically implies that solution of bug 66860 (just adding account name to the status bar) does not solve this bug (flickering different messages).
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Component: MailNews: Message Display → Networking
Ever confirmed: true
Product: SeaMonkey → MailNews Core
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
Assignee: sspitzer → nobody
Component: Networking → Networking: POP
QA Contact: esther
Summary: When recieving mail from multiple POP accounts simultaniously, only a single "Receiving message X of Y" should be displayed → When receiving mail from multiple POP accounts simultaneously, only a single "Receiving message X of Y" should be displayed
Severity: normal → S3
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