367072 - Offline/Online Status does not adjust when disabling network connection

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

Build: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070113 Thunderbird/2.0b1 Mnenhy/0.7.4.10002 ID:2007011404

On http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/releases/2.0b1.html#new we highlight: Improved Offline Management:  Thunderbird (Linux and Windows) automatically adjusts the offline state based on current network connectivity.

This does not work when you disable your Network Connection. Thunderbird does not recognize this and don`t switch to the offline mode.

Reproduced on Windows XP, Vista and Linux. 

Requesting blocking flag because of the Whats New Feature List :-)

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

Try setting this:

network.autodial-helper.enabled

to false in about:config tomcat.

see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359134#c11

Comment 2

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

Hi scott, 

you`re right, thx. It seems on one machine the VM Connections caused this problem and on a second machine the "network.autodial-helper.enabled" set to "false" is working fine. 

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

FYI, I added a release note item for disabling network.autodial-helper.enabled to the beta 2 release notes. 

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

I think the release note item is all we are going to be able to do for Thunderbird 2. I don't know enough about the autodial-helper code to understand the ramifications of setting that to false by default.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

FWIW, I had extreme performance issues (essentially a hang) on windows vista when network disabled ... was using current trunk coming back from summit.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Nikolay, can you reproduce comment 5?

Comment 7

[Nikolay Shopik]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2pre) Gecko/2008073000 Shredder/3.0a2pre
No problem on window XP, if I disable all network connection its automaticaly goes to offline mode. When pressing get mail ask explicitly to go online - if click ok - just give you error connecting to server.

Comment 8

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

This wfm. Carsten do you still have the issue ?

Comment 9

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

Hey Guys,

wfm now !

Comment 10

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Thanks !