321453 - Consolidate "could not connect to server" alerts

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 257942

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[shawn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051224 Camino/1.0b1+
Build Identifier: version 1.5 (20051201)

Having 14 mail accounts all display an indivdual alert for failing to connect to the server basically makes it faster to quit Thunderbird, fix the connection and restart Thunderbird than click through each of the alerts.

I know this fits in the "it hurts when I shoot myself in the foot" category, but consolidation of consecutive, related alerts would really speed up informing the user and getting to use the application.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Setup a whole lot of accounts
2. Disconnect from your network
3. Get all mail

Actual Results:  
Click, wait and repeat for each individual account

Expected Results:  
One alert appears with a list of errors.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to bug 223131, Core bug 123440 (and maybe Suite bug 168876)?

Comment 2

[doug51]

I too find the multiple connection alerts annoying and unnecessary. These alert messages cause T-Bird to HALT downloading emails until operator clicks OK. 
Here is an alert that pops up frequently: "This folder is being processed. Please wait until processing is complete to get messages!". If an alert pops up during the night while I'm asleep, no more emails are downloaded until I check the computer the next day and click on "OK". I receive thousands of emails during the night. One can imagine how frustrating it is to click on "OK" and wait for Thunderbird(with Cloudmark) to download thousands of messages that should have been downloaed while I was sleeping.

Thunderbird/Cloudmark should recover from these non-critical alerts without my intervention. A solution may be for Thunderbird/Cloudmark to provide an option to show/not show connection alerts. Most connection issues I have experienced have been momentary and transient, recovering almost imediatly. There is no reason to show program stopping alerts.

Doug51