248607 - window says 'message not sent' when it actually is

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Max Waterman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040531 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040531 Firefox/0.8.0+

When I press send on a compose window, it sends the email and then attempts to
copy the message to the sent folder.

Sometimes, it seems to hang when trying to copy if to the sent folder. If I
click 'cancel', the progress window disappears, but the message window remains
(this is misleading in itself, since I am tempted to send the message again). If
I then close the window, a window pops up saying that the message has not been
sent, when, in fact, it has.

Using a remote (different country) IMAP server.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.send message
2.click cancel after it has sent the message, but before it has copied it to the
sent folder
3.close the window

Actual Results:  
window appears claiming the message has not been sent

Expected Results:  
window appears claiming it could not copy to sent folder

Comment 1

[Ekhart]

Isn't this the same as or related to bug 277352 ?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277352

Comment 2

[Max Waterman]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Isn't this the same as or related to bug 277352 ?
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277352

I would say that it is related, yes, but it is certainly not the same.

That bug is complaining the failure to send.

This bug is complaining only about the message saying the email wasn't sent,
when it actually was. IMO this is a potentially critically misleading message
which could cause a user to send many identical messages while thinking none had
been sent.

Comment 3

[Ekhart]

To avoid bug spam, please see my answer here:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=260485

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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