272549 - IMAP no sync if two clients are accessing the same mailbox

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Joachim]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

Two instances of Mozilla or Thunderbird are accesing the same IMAP account
New mail arrives. Often (btter in most cases) both do not see incomming new mail.
Check for new mail by hand does not help.
The only way to get the new mail is to shutdown mozilla (ALL windows, including
browser) and restart mail.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. start mail on e.g. two system. Same user/host using IMAP
2. send yourself a mail
3. wait forever to get this mail or
4. shutdown mozilla
5. restart mozilla

Actual Results:  
in step 5 you get your mail

Expected Results:  
in step 3 get your mail.
It worked in some versions Mozilla <= 1.6

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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