43872 - Biff icon does not automatically appear in taskbar

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

Description

[fenella]

Linux (2000-06-26-08 M17)
Mac (2000-06-26-08 M17)
Steps:
1. Launch Messenger
2. Set preference to receive biff every 1 minutes
3. Exit and relaunch 
4. Click on Get message and mark all messages read
5. From another machine, send a message to this (imap) account
Actual result: I do not see any BIFF icon in the Status bar. I have to click on
Get Message so that it will appear.
Expected result: Biff icon should appear in the Status bar

This occurs on LInux and Mac.  Win_nt does not have this problem

Comment 1

[lchiang]

reassign to gayatri, cc: putterman

Comment 2

[fenella]

Biff Icon does not automatically appear in the Account level icon on Mac and
Linux.  I have to select the account, select Inbox for it to appear. Win32 is
fine. 

Gayatri, if you want a separate bug for account level, please let me know.

Comment 3

[fenella]

Please ignore my comment about the account level. It is working as expected. I
should logon to the account to get BIFF to work.

Comment 4

[gayatrib]

Once you logon into the account, I would expect the status bar also to work. 
When I tested this on Mac and Linux, it was working fine. Not sure what the 
problem might be... esp. as it is working on windows. Will look into it.

Comment 5

[scottputterman]

ok. I just tried my Linux debug build and this worked fine.  I saw it not work 
on Fenella's machine so perhaps there's a difference between release and debug 
or perhaps there's some other variable we don't know about.

Comment 6

[gayatrib]

I tried biff on today's builds on WindowsNT/Linux/Mac and it works as expected.
I'd like to watch this with Fenella as I can't reproduce it. 

I thought I'd mention the sequence of steps that need to be done before biff can 
take effect. Please do the following:

How to enable: 
After opening the mail window, go to: 
Edit 
Mail/News Account Settings 
Server (mail server) 
Check the option that says "Check for new mail every xx min" 
And enter your favorite time interval to check mail 
Click on OK. 

Unfortunately, you would have to RESTART the application for this setting to 
take effect. It is a bug that needs to be fixed... Bug 24594. 

Once you restart the app, and open the mail window, you should remember to LOGIN 
into your accounts (impa/Pop).

You should now see biff working.

Please try again with the above sequence of steps, and see if it works.

Comment 7

[gayatrib]

I also thought I'd add that on Imap accounts I think you are automatically asked 
to enter your password. So you know you have logged in.

Whereas on pop accounts, to login, you have to explicitly do a GetMsg. Only then 
you will be prompted with a password dialog, after entering which you are logged 
in.

From then on biff should work.

Comment 8

[fenella]

Linux (2000-06-27-09 M17) 
I agree.  BIFF icon automatically appears in the Status bar in Messenger and
Browser
and (2000-06-28-08 M17)
It works in the status bar in Messenger.  Unable to see it in Browser because of
bug 44101

Comment 9

[fenella]

Linux (2000-07-05-08 M17)
Win32 (2000-07-05-09 M17)
Mac (2000-07-05-10 M17)
This problem is fixed in POP and IMAP on all platforms.  However, BIFF icon in
Account level should not be green diamond. It should be downward arrow. 
See Bug 44600 for this problem.

Mark this bug fixed.

Comment 10

[fenella]

Verify it.