251479 - Repeated alerts on inaccessible imap account

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[rjellison]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: version 0.7+ (20040714) as well as version 7.,2

I have multiple email accounts. One IMAP account requires that I first establish
a VPN connection. The account setup is: check new mail on startup, check new
mail every 20 minutes.

If I start Thunderbird without first creating the VPN connection, then as
expected I get a "can not connect" alert. With Version 6 of Thubderbird and with
Version 7.1 of Mozilla, I did not get any further alerts that the connection is
not accessible. With Version 7 and the branch builds for 8, I get an alert every
5 minutes on being "unable to access imap server ...."

I then unchecked the account server options "check new mail on start" and "check
new mail every 20 minutes" and restarted Thunderbird. I don't get the alert on
startup, but I still get an alert every 5 minutes on being unable to access the
imap server.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Reference to an unaccessable IMAP server
2.Uncheck the check new mail option
3.

Actual Results:  
Repeated alerts that the server is not accessable.

Expected Results:  
No alerts. If the new mail option is checked, then there should be at most one
alert. Unfortunately the work offline option applies to all acounts. It would be
nice to have such a feature on each account.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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