250590 - mail won't check pop3 e-mail after it's been open for a while

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 206950

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, defect)

Description

[Esteban Mora Cyrman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707

I reported this bug earlier but now I have more details. When I first open the
Mozilla suite (1.7.1) and press Get all new messages, it works fine. If I leave
the suite open for a while (at least one aplication) and try to check for new
mails, it doesn't work. Two things can happen. First, the mail application stays
as if I haven't press any button, no message is printed on the status bar.
Second, the mail app stays checking (the mozilla logo changing as when
loading/working) but nothing happens, it stay that way for a while until I close
the aplication.

I tryed to go back to the 1.6 suite and I detected the problem too. That is
strange because the 1.6 suite work fine for me for a few months but when I
change to the 1.7 suite the problem began. I haven't installed the 1.8 alpha
suite yet.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Mozilla suite
2. Check for new mail pressing "Get all new messages"
3. Wait for a while (5 minutes maybe)
4. Press "Get all new messages" again

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Can you make a mail log, see
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html how to do it and
attach this log here?

Comment 2

[Christian Eyrich]

This is (unfortunately) a known problem and I experience it myself sometimes.
There's also TB bug 227617 on it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 206950 ***