382302 - -offline command line argument in Thunderbird has no effect

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Eric Moore]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.4pre (20070528)

Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 supports a -offline command line argument to start Thunderbird in offline mode. It works. It has no effect in 2.0 or version 2.0.0.4pre (20070528). I'm using XP Pro SP2 with the same profile for all three versions.

By the way, where is an accurate list of command line arguments? That type of change rarely gets mentioned in the release notes and http://www.mozilla.org/docs/command-line-args.html was last revised June 02, 2004. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Rod Whiteley]

The real problem seems to be that the Offline Settings dialog cannot set offline.startup_state to 4 (automatic), so that -offline works.  By the way, it cannot set it to 3 (offline) either.

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

This (-offline) too works fine for me on linux.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM also Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2pre) Gecko/2008072800 Shredder/3.0a2pre

=> WFM - see bug 382300 comment 12

(In reply to comment #1)
> The real problem seems to be that the Offline Settings dialog cannot set
> offline.startup_state to 4 (automatic), so that -offline works.  By the way, it
> cannot set it to 3 (offline) either.

standard8 mentions bug 359134 removed "4 (automatic)".