309299 - Saving a draft must happen in the background

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Danny Bloemendaal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

It is extremely annoying that saving a draft blocks the entire application. If I
work on a large email on a slow connection, it freezes for ages. Saving the
draft should definitely happen in a background thread.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jeongkyu Kim]

Hi Danny,

Could it be solution for you to save drafts into local folder? If then, try
'Tools -> Account Settings -> Copies & Folders -> Drafts and Templates'.

Comment 2

[Danny Bloemendaal]

Well, I haven't tried that (just activated it) but still it's not really the
point. It still needs to be done in the background. M$ Outl$$k does that afiak
and I never noticed any glitch while writing a large message. I can imagine
several cases where I want the draft to be on the server and not stored locally.

Comment 3

[Jeongkyu Kim]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Well, I haven't tried that (just activated it) but still it's not really the
> point. It still needs to be done in the background. 

I understand it. The comment #1 was just my suggestion as workaround. :-)

Comment 4

[zug_treno]

Related to/duplicate of bug 307042?

Comment 5

[Danny Bloemendaal]

Guess so but this report suggests it should be done in the background. Just as
long as that remains the main remark for this problem then I'd say close this
one or mark it as duplicate.

Cheers.

Comment 6

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Autosave of drafts work fine for me on Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 both locally and remotely (via IMAP).

-> WFM. Please feel free to comment if the issue still occurs in the latest 2.0.0.x or trunk nightlies.