347331 - manual download of truncated messages stops without warning when switching to next message

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 253102

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Kuno Meyer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird version 1.5.0.5 (20060719)

When manually downloaded truncated messages from the server, the user has to wait until the message has been completely downloaded. If the user switches to a new message instead of waiting for the completion, the download operation gets cancelled without user notification.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. POP3 account settings -> disk space -> activate do not download messages larger than xx MB
2. Send message greater than xx MB to this account
3. "Get Mail", select new message (larger than xx MB)
4. "Download rest of the message"
5. Immediately switch to another message

Actual Results:  
The download process stops without user notification.

Expected Results:  
Possible solutions:
a) Make "download truncated message" work in background.
b) Ask the user whether he is willing to cancel the download of the truncated message.