375667 - If user closes main window before address book, Thunderbird does not clean up TCP connections properly when conducting address book queries

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 382446

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[tg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: version 2 beta 2 (20070116)

Related to two previously closed bugs, 206018 and 330507.  When users opens address book to conduct an address query via a ssl connection to ldaps server and they close out main window prior to closing address book, program does not clean up TCP connections properly.  Consequently, Thunderbird responds with an internal error message that program did not clean up connections properly.

The error message is reproducible via ssl connections.  However, the problem is occurring on non-ssl connections, but Thunderbird does not return an error message.  The user is unaware of any improper occurrence, i.e. improperly-closed sockets.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Thunderbird normally
2.Open Address Book
3.Conduct address query to an LDAPS server
4.Close Thunderbird's main window
5.Close Thunderbird's address book
6.Thunderbird produces Internal error message
Actual Results:  
Thunderbird produces Internal error message alerting the user that all secured connections were not properly cleaned up

Expected Results:  
After receiving its expected response (addresses) from the ldap server, Thunderbird should send ack/fin/push packets to close out connection

ack - acknowlege packets received from server
psh - to tell server to clean out its buffer - since it is closing its connection
fin - closing connection

The closing sequence of the main window and address book can be handled one of two ways. 

1.  Do not let user close out main window until all other sub-windows are closed proeprly.  Provide user warning to close out sub-windows.
2.  When closing out main window, with warning automatically close out sub windows, i.e. address book, before closing main window

Comment 1

[tg]

Verified that problem also occurs when using Mac computers

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

dupe

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

tg, can you test version 3 beta 2 to see that it indeed fixes your problem?  It will install along side your version 2. YOu can use your same profile, or (more safely) create a new profile

 http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/early_releases/
backup your profile before testing