333248 - Error dialogs block getting mail from other accounts

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 195596

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Ben Hollis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

If you have multiple email accounts, and there is an error getting mail from one of them, Thunderbird does not continue on to the next messages. Instead it puts up a modal dialog that forces the user to click through it before it tries the next account. It should really just go ahead and try the next account, and put the failed account error in a non-modal dialog, like Outlook Express does.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up multiple accounts
2. Mess up one of them (enter the name wrong or something)
3. Hit the get new mail button

Actual Results:  
Modal dialog pops up, other accounts which may be just fine don't get checked until you click the box.

Expected Results:  
Other accounts get checked, error is shown in a summary window.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to Core bug 195596?

Comment 2

[Ben Hollis]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 195596 ***