302975 - "Get mail" button should be disabled while checking for mails.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Andreas Morawietz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050801 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050801 Firefox/1.0+

"Get mail" button should be disabled while checking for mails.
If thunderbird automatically checks for emails and user checks for mails at this
moment, this could cause trouble with mailservers.

So simply deactivate getmail button in that case!


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of Core bug 140741?

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

Disabling the button while gettting mail was discussed in bug 140741, but it's
not really what that bug is about. Confirming.

Comment 3

[David Bate]

Just a small thought for both this and bug 140741.

I think I know what the problem is and was wondering if disabling the Get Mail
button when the Stop button is active, and then when the Stop button is
de-activated, then the Get Mail button is made active.

This way it will keep the user from pressing the Get mail button when
Thunderbird is aready checking for mail, possibly screwing with the present
connect to a server.

Just a thought...

Comment 4

[Andreas Morawietz]

> I think I know what the problem is and was wondering if disabling the Get Mail
> button when the Stop button is active, and then when the Stop button is
> de-activated, then the Get Mail button is made active.
> 
> This way it will keep the user from pressing the Get mail button when
> Thunderbird is aready checking for mail, possibly screwing with the present
> connect to a server.
> 
> Just a thought...

thanks, I want it this way - but my English isn't very well...so I had trouble
to explain it.

Additional thought: 
Getmail and Stop button should be combined: 
If you click on getmail, getmail button changes into stop-button (the
description and functionality of the button changes).
After checking for mail is complete, the getmail button appears again.

Comment 5

[Andreas Morawietz]

still not in work?

Comment 6

[Ray Booysen]

Apologies for the bugspam, submitted form by mistake.

Comment 7

[Andreas Morawietz]

Seems that nobody is interested in this 2 year old report. I close it.

Comment 8

[Daniel B.]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Seems that nobody is interested in this 2 year old report. 

How do you arrive at that conclusion?  There aren't any comments
that people don't care, and you don't claim any other evidence
(e.g, that it was discussion in some other forum).

Additionally, I don't see any rationale for dismissing the bug
report.  At least in SeaMonkey, the UI does not have a reliable
way to indicate that mail is being retrieved.  (Reporting in
the status bar is buggy when multiple tasks are updating it.)


> I close it.

That is irresponsible.  Mozilla's bug-handling process is broken
(very poor quality) if you can close a bug report with no reasonable
justification (that it was fixed, that the reported behavior
wasn't a bug or a requested feature is undesirable).