28370 - Can't use mail while downloading file via FTP

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 32060

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)

Description

[Richard Zach]

WHile an FTP download is in progress, I can't switch folders in Mail, and
messages in the current folder are either not displayed at all (local, POP), or
only displays the headers but not the body (IMAP, NNTP).

To reproduce:
1. Start FTP download on largish file
2. Switch to MailNews
3. Select a message in the current folder

Actual result: If the folder is a local folder, the message pane turns blank. 
If it's an IMPA or News folder, the message headers of the selected message are
displayed, but the message body area is black.

Expected result: Message is displayed as usual

4. Select different folder

Actual result: Selection in folder pane changes, but new folder contents not
displayed in thread view.
Expected result: thread pane refreshed as usual.

Note that this does not seem to be a network problem.  The IMAP log shows that
the message selected is actually downloaded from the server during the download;
it just doesn't make it into the message pane.

Linux build 2000.02.17.15

Comment 1

[Phil Peterson]

cc mscott and putterman. Any ideas (or takers)?

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

Sounds like a scheduling problem with necko. ftp may be starving our protocols
out from getting time slices? I'd have to investigate though.

Comment 3

[Richard Zach]

Note again: the IMAP log shows that messages are downloaded while the FTP
download is running. I can also load pages in the browser while the download is
in progress.

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

oops...thanks Zach. I didn't read that last comment of yours at the end of the
bug report =). Shame on me....

Comment 5

[selmer (gone)]

Phil found a way to weasel out of owning this bug.  Reassigning.

Comment 6

[Richard Zach]

Marking dup of more current identical bug per Lisa's request.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32060 ***

Comment 7

[lchiang]

verified duplicate