376354 - Second email account is not checked automatically

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 278383

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Andreas Sahlbach]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070327 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird version 2 beta 2 (20070403) (gentoo build)

I have two mail accounts. The first one is an imap account. The second one is a local email account (unix movemail). Both accounts are set to be checked at startup and every 2 minutes. Only the imap account is actually checked on startup and on a regular base. New mail on the unix movemail account is not detected on startup nor is it checked on a regular base. I double checked that the proper checkboxes are set.
Furthermore: If I click "GetMail->GetAllNewMessages" from the toolbar, only new message from the imap appears. The new mail of the unix movemail account will not appear.
The only way to get new mail for the unix movemail account is to select the account and then press the "GetMail" Button or to select the unix movemail account explicitely via "GetMail-><unix movemail account>".
The unix movemail account is on my local machine (postfix installation) and is for local mail only. I get output from my nightly cron jobs or ebuild outputs via this account.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create 2 account. First one in my case is an imap account, second is an unix movemail account.
2.Set both accounts to get mail automatically on startup and after a regular time period (in my case 2 minutes)
3.Send yourself some mail to the local unix movemail account.
4.Startup thunderbird. Wait some time.
Actual Results:  
No new mail appears in the local account. Not after the startup nor after the time period specified for the automatic check mail time.

Expected Results:  
To get an new mail alert for the new mail waiting in the unix movemail account. After startup and (if more mail arrives after starting thunderbird) also after the check mail time period.

Comment 1

[Magnus Rosenbaum]

I can confirm this.

New mail does not get fetched
 - automatically every x minutes
 - on startup
 - if you press "Get all new messages".

I don't know if it depends from the existing of other accounts. I have a lot of POP and IMAP accounts.

I remember that I experienced this bug since Netscape 4, about 10 years ago.