473515 - Thunderbird doesn't get messages until user click "OK" in the popup window after setting up a new account ("This folder is being processed.Please wait until processing is complete to get messages.")

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Matěj Cepl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; cs-CZ; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121622 Fedora/3.0.5-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.5 Ubiquity/0.1.4
Build Identifier: thunderbird-2.0.0.19-1.fc10.x86_64

(orginally filed as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472175)

As soon as finish setting up a new pop email account(i.e. gmail pop) and click "Finish", an alert window "This folder is being processed. Please wait until processing is complete to get messages."  And then thunderbird will not get any messages unless user click "Ok" button. Moreover if user click the button a little later, and then will be warned "Time Out". Usually, the alert window will popup only when user click "Get Mail" again while thunderbird is getting new messages. But user really did nothing but click "finish" after creating a new account.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. issue #thunderbird -createprofile test_pop in terminal
2. issue #thunderbird -P test_pop, and follow the wizard to finish setting up a
pop acount
3.  keep option "Download messges now" is checked by default,and click
"Finish".
Actual Results:  
After clicking "Finish",an alert window will pop-up immediately and thunderbird
will not get any messages.

Expected Results:  
There should none alert window pop up and thunderbird get messages immediately
after clicking "Finish".

I know there is a huge collection of "This folder is being processed. Please wait until processing is complete to get messages." bugs. I found bug 101584, bug 152675, bug 323520, bug 363273, bug 392680, bug 403184, bug 436939, and bug 464616, but none of these describes exactly the issue at hand.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

if this is true, I would block b2 for it because it's a bad first experience. We've definitely had this issue in the past so it would not surprise me if someone removed some code that prevented it not knowing why the code was there.

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

taking to get off the nobody list.

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

I'll try to recreate this soon...

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

the drag is that I need a pop3 inbox I don't mind draining because leave on server is not the default. I might need to fix that first, separate from the new account auto config stuff.

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

this works for me in Shredder, so marking WFM. Please re-open if you can recreate with a Shredder/TB 3.0 build (e.g., 3.0 beta 1)