285720 - Thunderbird hangs if alert message appears while dragging a mail

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 100180

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Marcus Kommnick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021029 Phoenix/0.4
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When I drag&drop a mail (left mousebutton still pressed down) and an alert-box
appears at the same time (e.g. couldn't connect to mailserver xy) it is unable
to either drop the mail to a folder or acknoledge the alert box. The alert box
was highlighted but nothing happened if I click "ok" and I was also unable to
click anything else. I also tried to keep the left mousebutton down and be sure
I release it about a folder before I try to clock the aler message but still the
same. I was forced to kill Thunderbird via taskmanager. The dragged mail was
still in the old folder after a restart.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. configure an account that tries to poll a non-existing POP3 server. This will
generate an alert every time Thunderbird starts (a few seconds delayed)
2. stop and restart Thunderbird 
3. drag a mail and keep holding the mouse button before the alert message appears


Actual Results:  
Thunderbird "hangs", unable to click anything.

Expected Results:  
Either cancel the drag&drop and display the alert  or  delay the alert until the
drag&drop is finished (left mousebutton released).

Vanilla Thunderbird 1.0

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

In such a situation try to hit the ESC key to break the hang. Mouse should work
after that.


I would say this is a duplicate of Bug 100180.

Comment 2

[Marcus Kommnick]

Yes, looks like bug #100180. Hitting "Esc" broke the hang.

Thx for the fast response.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100180 ***

Comment 3

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

V.Duplicate