261305 - Automatically attempt using alternate SMTP servers when the default fails

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 167506

(MailNews Core :: Networking: SMTP, enhancement)

Description

[Mark Derricutt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

I currently have two SMTP servers configured in thunderbird, one for my wireless
ISP I use at home, and one for the internal office mail server.

After having used the laptop at home with the wireless ISP server set as default
I return to the office, where I connect to the LAN, where mail fails through the
ISP server ( relaying ), and I have to manually open the advanced SMTP server
settings dialog and change my default SMTP server to that of works.

The same process occurs when I return home and are connected via my ISP again.

What would be good is that if the current default server fails, prompt the user
to try the next configured SMTP server, and if that works, make that the default
*for this session*.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure one SMTP server
2. Switch to a different LAN that will fail relay rules
3. Send message

Actual Results:  
Send failure.

Expected Results:  
As proposed, the user should be prompted to try the next, or another server ( if
more than 1 other server is configured ), and message automatically resent.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 285388 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 287379 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 295260 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 167506 ***