267876 - Mail closed still pops new mail if Navigator is still running

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 24594

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Kevin McNamee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

When I start Mozilla at work, my Navigator and Mail opens. Everything works
fine. I POP mail from the server. On Friday I closed my Mail window thinking
that Mozilla would stop popping mail from the server. This is not the case. When
I use my webmail from home, I can see new mails disappearing after a few minutes
from the server. When I check Mozilla in work on Monday, the mails are there.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Mozilla (Navigator and Mail (POP)) 
2. Close Mail
Actual Results:  
Mozilla continues to pop new mail as long as the Navigator remains open

Expected Results:  
Stop popping mail if the Mail window is closed

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This bug is asking the opposite of bug 71105.
I think David's right that this is a dupe, but it's a hard dupe to find.

Comment 2

[Felix Miata]

shortly after this was filed I tried to find it, but gave up after about 30
minutes without success

Comment 3

[Kevin McNamee]

Not sure what to make of these comments. However, I would add that it never
occured to me that closing my email client would do anything other than stop
downloading my mail. This follows "The principle of least suprise".

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Not sure what to make of these comments.

You can look for the earlier report and, if you find it, dupe this bug to it. 
Other than that, for the most part those comments aren't directed at you, 
they're directed at people who might be looking into this bug.


> This follows "The principle of least suprise".

Clearly, this point is arguable -- the people who want bug 71105 fixed want the 
mail checking activated even before they've opened the mail window.  They don't 
view Mozilla as two separate programs.  Perhaps that insight requires a certain 
level of geekiness to appreciate.

The easiest way to get the results you're after is to run Firefox and 
Thunderbird, rather than Mozilla.

Comment 5

[Kevin McNamee]

> The easiest way to get the results you're after is to run Firefox and 
> Thunderbird, rather than Mozilla.

I don't give up that easily :-)
I propose two improvements that would solve this problem and not conflict with
bug 71105

1) Save the browser Tabs on close (like Opera). This is part of my original
reason for trying to shutdown only the mail client.

2) If bug 71105 is fixed, then users could choose whether or not they want that
feature. For example, the "Check for new messages at startup" option could also
be available in "Edit->Preferences..." as well as under "POP Mail
Account->Server Settings"

Either of these would be satisfactory.

Comment 6

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24594 ***