Closed Bug 27083 Opened 25 years ago Closed 24 years ago

IMAP: should postpone downloading of headers as result of unsolicited response

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

All
Windows NT
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED WONTFIX
Future

People

(Reporter: Bienvenu, Assigned: Bienvenu)

References

Details

If we're doing something like downloading a message in the inbox and get an unsolicited response that there are new headers, we should postpone downloading headers until we've fetched the message.
moving to m20, accepting.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M20
*** Bug 27084 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 27084 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
QA Contact: lchiang → huang
enhancement? If so, will move to future target milestone
bug is a bit bogus - we don't download headers before downloading a message - what happens is sometimes biff fires right before you click on a message, and there's not much we can do about that. If you don't like it, turn biff off.
Target Milestone: M20 → Future
Does this impact bug 16545? Users won't always turn biff off. I did notice that biff are not working correctly for most of IMAP servers: see bug 37826 for MS Exchange, bug 38346 for Cyrus, bug 38235 for AOL.
biff is working fine on all those servers, where biff is defined as the automatic retrieving of headers at a user-specified interval. All those bugs are just in the handling of the green icon, which is not server-specific, and really has nothing to do with biff - it's just the indication that a folder has new headers since the user last opened that folder, and is also set when the user manually downloads new headers by clicking Get Msg or selecting the INBOX.
Agree. I will go ahead to mark those bugs dup of bug 16545.
resolving wontfix - it's really invalid, as described above but whatever.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Marking as verified based on David's comments
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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