273111 - Cannot view mail when not connected to the Internet

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Thom Hehl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

If I download my mail, then disconnect from the Internet, I am unable to view my
messages. Double-clicking on a message brings up a new message window, but the
text is not displayed, even if this is a plain text message. Connecting to the
Internet instantly fixes this problem.

This is inconvenient because I wish sometimes to review old e-mails without
having to dial-in. Please fix.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect to Internet
2. Open Thunderbird and download messages.
3. Disconnect from Internet
4. Double-click on a message to open it.

Actual Results:  
Blank message window.

Expected Results:  
Display the mail message I already downloaded.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

you need to configure thunderbird to automatically download mail when you read it 

File | Offline | download & sync now | 

pick the select button, put a check mark by each folder you want thunderbird to
keep an offline copy of. From that point on, we will store the messages you read
in the offline store.

Comment 2

[Mike Kowalski]

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