320180 - closing compose window during send should save draft

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Mikel Ward]

I composed a new message, clicked on Send, then for some reason the window got stuck saying "Sending message...".  I presume there was a network problem talking to my SMTP server.

I clicked on the close window [x] button (or was it the Cancel... button on the send dialog?) and got two options: Wait or Quit.

Clicking Wait wasn't going to help since it had been trying for about 4 minutes, so I clicked Quit.

Now my message was neither sent, stored in the Sent folder on my IMAP server, or stored in the Drafts folder on my IMAP server.  Apparently the message I had composed but not successfully sent is now gone.

Comment 1

[Mikel Ward]

(It wasn't in any of Unsent, Drafts, or Sent in Local Folders, either.)

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

There is an important difference in behavior depending on whether you have the send-progress dialog enabled or not (mailnews.show_send_progress), and I also see a slight difference in behavior across the recent versions.

If show_send_progress is True, and you cancel transmission using the dialog's Cancel button, you still get the bogus error message (bug 120278), but the compose window is not closed; you can save as a draft, or retransmit, from that point.

If show_send_progress is True but you close the compose window while sending, transmission continues (via the progress dialog) despite the Wait/Quit prompt being displayed.  I think the progress dialog should be a modal child of the compose window, preventing this instance; but I think that's a separate bug 
from this one.

If show_send_progress if False, then cancelling transmission by clicking the 
[X] widget shows Wait/Quit as described; after Quit is clicked, here's where I see differences, which might be due to software changes or might be due to the state of the program at the time I tested.
 * With TB 1.5, after clicking Quit, there were no windows left in evidence
   (besides the 3-pane)
 * With TB 2a1-0523, after clicking Quit, a new *blank* compose window was
   opened, which has disabled address widgets and subject field (bug 127565 / 
   bug 129290).  As noted at 129290, this might be a timing issue depending on
   when the [X] is clicked; it might also apply to Cancel from the progress
   dialog.  The disabled compose window can be closed without a problem.
 * TB 3a1-0529 behaved as 2a1 -- but, in this case, when I closed the disabled
   compose window, the entire program shut down!

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 305582 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

sounds vaguely familiar

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Do you still encounter this problem?

Comment 7

[Phoenix]

Resolved per whiteboard