476708 - Send Message Later function does not work

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[hmdoty]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; InfoPath.1)
Build Identifier: Version	5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600

Send Message Later Button causes an error when trying to write to the "Unsent Messages" file.  It incorrectly give an error indicating that the folders should be compacted, which does not help.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Compose a message
2.Hit the Send Later Button
3.See the error
Actual Results:  
1 - Copying Message to Unsent Messages Folder never completes
2 - The messages could not be copied to folder 'Unsent Messages' because writing to folder failed.  To gain Disk Space ...

Expected Results:  
The message should have been saved and ready to be sent when going on line

This re-occurs even when uninstalling and re-installing the software

Comment 1

[hansen]

Try to empty the Unsent Messages, right click the folder, select Properties, click Rebuild Index.
Check if the folder contains old messages and then use the menu File > Compact Folders.

Are you using Thunderbird 2.0.0.19?

Comment 2

[hansen]

It might be bug 479285 - not sure.

Comment 3

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Reporter this issue is present also in last release 2.0.0.22?

Could you try to see if it still happens with
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-1.9.1/ ?

Comment 4

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

This seems WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0b3 - Reporter could you pls try again with the build in comment #3?

Comment 5

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Closing Incomplete for lack of answers.

Feel free to reopen if you can provide more information.

Comment 6

[hmdoty]

I have not been able to get around this using any of the above listed work arounds.

I now simply have to "Save" my messages when off line and send them one at a time from the saved messages folder when going on line again.

Harold Doty

Comment 7

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

So some issues that might be happening :
  your outbox folder is not write enabled at the OS level, coul you have a look at the properties of that folder on your Hard drive ?
  It could be that it's too big (but I doubt that.)

Comment 8

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Ignore my question as you agree with us.