273973 - import server timeout value from OE 6

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Import, defect)

Description

[Don Robinson]

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

OE has a timeout for server contact. It is currently set at 60 seconds. This is
good since the ISP's mail server can be slow. I can't find a timeout in
Thunderbird, let alone a way to reset it. Perhaps that is why I usually get a
"Failed to connect with server ~.~." message.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on Get Mail.
2. I don't seem to get message on the automatic mail pickup, but then neither
does any mail seem to come through automatically.


Actual Results:  
The error message above appeared. It disappeared after clicking OK.

Expected Results:  
It should have downloaded mail waiting long enough to accomodate a slow server.
OE does.

I don't know what "typing about:buildconfig  into your URL bar" means.

Comment 1

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Comment 2

[Don Robinson]

Someone emailed me with a description of a config file that allowed a change to
the timeout while waiting for email from the server. I still think you should
add the feature to the GUI as well as importing the setting from OE. At least
mention the config setting in HELP.

The server was experiencing slow downloading at the time, but has since recovered.

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Not a migration bug as far as I can work out.

Comment 4

[Przemyslaw Bialik]

Confirming the bug.

In Thunderbird mailnews.tcptimeout pref specifies server timeout (UI was removed in Bug 451620 ). The current default is 100s.
This pref is not settable per account (as in OE) so it might be debatable to import this setting (if there is more than 1 account configured in OE than from which one ?) without further enhancements to the mentioned pref.


Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090118 Lightning/1.0pre Shredder/3.0b2pre & OE 6