388242 - SMTP Mail Server Password dialog is modal to the wrong window

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Seen on trunk with Gecko 200707100303 SeaMonkey 2.0a1pre, and numerous 
earlier trunk versions.  I think I filed a bug on this before, but I 
cannot find that earlier bug now.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Read a Mail
2. Click reply, compose a reply, click Send.
3. The "Sending Messages" dialog comes up, and the progress meter starts 
spinning.
4. The "Mail Server Password Required" dialog comes up.  It brings the mail
mail reading windows to the front, on top of the message composition window
and on top of the "Sending Messages" dialog.  The "Mail Server Password Required" dialog is modal to the main mail reading window, which is the 
WRONG WINDOW for it to be modal to.  
5. If you enter the password, and click OK, the password dialog goes away,
and leaves the main mail window on top, so that you do not see the subsequent
progress activity in the "Sending Messages" dialog.

6. If you click Cancel in the password dialog, it bring the compose window
and the "Sending Messages" dialog back to the top, and then adds another 
dialog on top of the "Sending Messages" dialog, which is the "Send Message
Error" dialog.  The "Send Message Error" dialog is also modal to the 
compose window.  While the "Send Message Error" dialog is displayed, it is
possible to click the cancel button on the "Sending Messages" dialog, to 
dismiss it, and the "Send Message Error" dialog remains displayed, and the
compose window remains modal to it.  

I think there are several things wrong with that sequence of events.  
They are:
a) The "Mail Server Password Required" dialog should be modal to the 
composition window, like the "Sending Messages" dialog and the "Send Message Error" dialog are, and should NOT be modal to the main mail window.  It
should not bring the main mail window up over the compose window.

b) The "Sending Messages" dialog should go away and be replaced by the 
"Send Message Error" dialog.  The two dialogs should not be displayed 
simultaneously.  The "Sending Messages" dialog should go away BEFORE the
"Send Message Error" dialog appears.

Comment 1

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

I wonder if this is relevant to bug 413240.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I wonder if this is relevant to bug 413240.

perhaps. would also be good to check this post 3.1 to see if behavior is changed