270745 - header-only pop3 download doesn't display status messages

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, defect)

Description

[timeless]

BuildId: 20041118
version: 0.6+ (i dunno what that means, i suppose it's a trunk thing)

Ignoring the fact that I can't get thunderbird to download 400 of my emails.

Actual Results:
while it is downloading emails, the status bar continues to say:
"Connect: Host contacted, sending login information..." while it's downloading
messages.

Expected Results:
After it finishes "sending login information", the status should change to
something useful, or blank. ideally it'd tell me how many messages it's planning
to download.

Steps to reproduce:
1. setup a gmail account (if you need an invite, just ask)
2. setup a bugzilla account with your gmail account
3. make your bugzilla account watch all default owner and qa contacts for
bugzilla.mozilla.org
4. wait 8months
5. login to gmail.com
6. select Settings
7. select Forwarding and POP
8. select (*) Enable POP for all mail (even mail that's already been downloaded)
9. select When messages are accessed with POP [keep Gmail's copy in the Inbox|v].
10. download thunderbird from
http://ftp27f.newaol.com/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-trunk/thunderbird-win32.zip
11. expand it (this is windows xp, so that's simply a copy of the thunderbird
folder from the thunderbird.zip explorer view) to the desktop
12. double click the thunderbird folder
13. double click the thunderbird.exe application
14. Don't import anything (we're trying to torture thunderbird with a 1/3gb pop3
account from scratch, not with poaching someone else's 0.7gb imap account).
15. next
16. email mail
17. next
18. for name, enter your gmail account name (e.g. timeless)
19. for email address, enter your gmail email address (e.g. [e-mail])
20. next
21. (*) pop
22. incoming server: pop.gmail.com
-*problem, the first time you do this, you get a chance to select the outgoing
server, after that you don't, 
23. [ ] Use Global Inbox (...)
24. outgoing server: smtp.gmail.com
25. next
26. Incoming username: enter your gmail email address (e.g. [e-mail])
27. Outgoing username: enter your gmail email address (e.g. [e-mail])
28. next
29. next
30. [ ] Download messages now
31. Finish
32. Stop the connect that thunderbird is trying to make to pop.gmail.com, (it
doesn't quite understand step 30 - bug 270743)
33. tools>account settings
34. select server settings for your new gmail account (e.g. [e-mail])
35. [x] Use secure connection (SSL)
36. [ ] Check for new messages at startup
37. [ ] Check for new messages every [...] minutes
38. [ ] Automatically download new messages
39. [x] Fetch headers only
40. [x] Leave messages on server
41. select outgoing server (smtp)
42. Port: [587]
43. (*) TLS
44. OK

references:
http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13284
http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13285

45. Click the inbox for your gmail account (e.g. [e-mail])
46. Click Get Mail
46' The status bar should say Connected to pop.gmail.com...
47. At the enter your password prompt, enter your password
48. Click OK
48' The status bar should say Connect: Host contacted, sending login information...
48` the status bar will still say that while it's downloading messages.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

updating summary to reflect actual bug...

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Anyone using pop believe this issue still exists?

Comment 4

[ISHIKAWA, Chiaki]

Dear Wayne,
I have not done header-only download for POP3 before. [Actually, I did not know such a feature exists at all!]
Of course, this is POP3 so only the following setup (line 39 and 40) for connection makes sense.

34. select server settings for your new gmail account (e.g. [e-mail])
35. [x] Use secure connection (SSL)
36. [ ] Check for new messages at startup
37. [ ] Check for new messages every [...] minutes
38. [ ] Automatically download new messages
39. [x] Fetch headers only               : *THESE TWO* They must come in combination 
40. [x] Leave messages on server         : if headers only fetching is done. 


I will try recreating the situation on a local server using a local pop3 server (and maybe gmail, too) this weekend.

BTW, the following line in the above report has to be a joke.

> 4. wait 8months

TIA

Comment 5

[Parkhideh]

To improve on the joke:
1) I downloaded many headers.
2) "Connect: Host for ....., sending login information"   was on status line, very briefly.
3) "Checking InBox for new messages" stayed on for the rest of the download time.
4) Server settings: "STARTTLS"  "Normal Password"  "Port:110".
5) My version of Thunderbird 7.0.1; appropriate for the time this bug or request was opened.

So I conclude, everything works well; and it meets the requested result even if it is not the ideal one:

"Expected Results:
After it finishes "sending login information", the status should change to
something useful, or blank. ideally it'd tell me how many messages it's planning
to download."