254178 - put mail into unsent messages when sending fails

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 82996

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Nicolas Dietrich [:nidi]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

Persons with a dial-up connection often write emails offline and send them
alltogether later or in another session. Therefore it would be nice to have the
functionality that mails that cannot be sent (mostly due to no internet
connection) are moved into the unsent mail folder (which isn't easily found in
local folders). That's what the "send later" function does. But therefore, the
user has to know it's online status and has to use the menu (which he doesn't
have to in Outlook Express, because it does that).

Together with this feature request goes bug #242079, which proposes to send
unsent messages when fetching mail.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. be offline
2. compose an email
3. click on "send"
Actual Results:  
shows an error that mail could not be sent

Expected Results:  
put it into the unsent mail folder, evtl. give the user some feedback (e.g. in
the status line: "mail foo has been put into the folder unsent messages")

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

For MailNews there is Bug 82996 for that issue.

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

duping to the Core bug

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 82996 ***