295871 - Get Mail- clicking on this only gets mail for first account not both accounts. This true even if menu down to Get All New Messages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 125885

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[tom]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0.2 (20050317)

None, see above.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on Get Mail
2. or menu to Get all mail messages next to get mail on arrow...
3.

Actual Results:  
Only got mail from my first email account. The second account never comes through. 

Expected Results:  
Both email accounts should have been downloaded.

None

Comment 1

[Robert van den Aker]

> Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0.2 (20050317)
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Click on Get Mail
> 2. or menu to Get all mail messages next to get mail on arrow...
> 3.
> Actual Results:  
> Only got mail from my first email account. The second account never comes 
through. 
> Expected Results:  
> Both email accounts should have been downloaded.

I use Thunderbird 1.0.6 on Windows XP with two POP accounts. I can confirm 
that clicking the "Get Mail" button only gets mail for the first account. 
However, contrary to this report, selecting "Get all mail messages" from the 
Get Mail dropdown menu, does get the new mail for both accounts.

This bug has some relation to #277179 (default action of "Get Mail" button on 
toolbar is unknown). If the default action of "Get Mail" is to get mail for 
the primary account only, then it's doing that correctly (in my experience); 
but I would say that's unexpected behavior and the default action should be to 
get mail for all accounts.

Comment 2

[N. Becker]

I agree, it should be the default to get mail for ALL accounts when you click the get mail button, thats how it works in every other mail client.

Comment 3

[alexa]

(In reply to comment #1)
> 
> This bug has some relation to #277179 (default action of "Get Mail" button on 
> toolbar is unknown). If the default action of "Get Mail" is to get mail for 
> the primary account only, then it's doing that correctly (in my experience); 
> but I would say that's unexpected behavior and the default action should be to 
> get mail for all accounts.

With several accounts and more than one set to be included in getting mail, seamonkey didn't use the primary account. 
After I assigned only one account (with global inbox) to be included, it used the primary one instead of the assigned account.

Comment 4

[alexa]

(In reply to comment #3)
Sorry, I forgot to tell that this behaviour occurs only if Local Folders is marked!

Comment 5

[Shriramana Sharma]

Seems to be a duplicate of bug 247661 and 125885.