275575 - Get Mail button disregards setting to not retrieve certain accounts

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 301228

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[ventre.louis]

When the Get Mail button is used it polls all email accounts whether or not 
those accounts are tagged for regular downloading.  It should only poll those 
accounts selected for periodic downloading as is the case in OE. I'm using 
Thunderbird version 1.0 (20041206)

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

leventre: when you file Thunderbird bugs, please use "Thunderbird" as the
product, not "Bugzilla", thank you.  Bugzilla is not an email client, it's a
bug-tracking system.  This is the second one for you I've moved today.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Get New Mail for All Account will retrieve mail from each account for which the 
password is known.  If you're storing the passwords for the accounts, delete the 
stored ones for the accounts you don't want queried.

Alternately, you can create a second profile and set it up with the accounts 
that you only want to check occasionally.  TB's profile handling is a little 
awkward -- there's no Choose Profile menu action, you need to exit and restart 
into the Profile Manager -- but it's an option.

Comment 3

[Paul Freet]

Comment #3 makes no sense. How does one create an account with no password and
not have Thunderbird ask for it each time? It not unusual to have one ore more 
outgoing-only email accounts. Thunderbird forces you to add a valid POP or IMAP
server when you create a new account. When you click on the "Get Mail" button,
it asks for a password. If I click cancel, the next time I click "get Mail" it
asks for the password again. If I don't enter a valid password and click "OK" it
does not work, it asks for a password again.


How does one create outgoing email only accounts and be able to use the "Get
Mail" button? You can't. That is a BUG.

-- Paul

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Comment #3 makes no sense.

You're right.


> How does one create an account with no password and
> not have Thunderbird ask for it each time? 

You don't check the "Save password" button the first time it asks.

> When you click on the "Get Mail" button, it asks for a password. 

It does that only if you have that account selected.  The button only gets mail 
for the current account (or newsgroup) if you simply click it.  You need to drop 
down the button's menu to perform "Get New Messages for *All* Accounts" (or use 
the File menu or the shortcut).

Comment 5

[Paul Freet]

Good clue, thank you Mike. OK, this is the fix. I use Global inbox for all my
email accounts including the "dummy" accounts. I then filter mail to the right
place. If the dummy accounts have their own folder instead of global inbox, the
"Get Mail" doesn't try to download mail from them, only the email acocunts set
up to use the global inbox. Yea!

It would ne nice if it were a more elegant way to have dummy (outgoing only)
email accounts in Thunderbird, but that certinaly isn't a bug. My sincere
apologies for suggesting otherwise. Thanks for the fast response to confirm this
isn't a bug. You guys are awesome!  -- Paul

Comment 6

[ventre.louis]

I still believe this is a bug that should be fixed.  It is at least a serious 
deficiency in performance.  I keep a full account listing of all my small 
business email accounts including the passwords.  I don't have any dummy email 
accounts.  In outlook express, the get mail button only downloads mail marked 
for downloading.  This is very handy because I don't want to download all the 
email accounts.  Now the Get Mail button is useless to me.  I have to use the 
arrow and only download a specific account, if I want to check more often than 
the period I set.

The Get Mail button in Thunderbird gets mail from all the accounts by default.  
Contrary to what was suggested, I don't have to select get all messages from 
the drop down list for this to occur.

Using a different identity is not a practical answer.  It seems to me the 
program should have a subroutine to check to see if the account is selected for 
periodic downloads.  Then if someone wants to download from all accounts, they 
can select the down arrow and get all new messages.

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #6)
> The Get Mail button in Thunderbird gets mail from all the accounts by default. 

No, it does not, and it never did.  It gets mail from the account that is 
selected in the folder pane, or for the selected newsgroup or news account.

 
> I still believe this is a bug that should be fixed.

The program is not broken, insofar as it behaves as the programmers intended.
I'm duping this bug to a general "allow customization of the Get Mail button" 
RFE.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 301228 ***