534141 - During mail-download give information what account is already finished

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[zuhansh]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0

hello,

my problem is: 
I have several accounts. it happens often, that there is a timeout during looking for and downloading my new mails. 
now, some accounts are already finished-ok, but where are the accounts/is the account, where the timeout occurred??

my suggestion is:
it would be wonderful, if all the accounts, that are finished-ok should be marked somehow (color, symbol...) - or similar solutions that give appropriate informations.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make a "download from all accounts" (in german: "Alle Konten abrufen").
2. sometimes a timout occurs.
3. I have no information, what account had the timeout/is left for checking new mails.
Actual Results:  
because I don't know exactly which account is left for checking, I have to do the whole thing again.

Expected Results:  
the software should give information about the accounts, that had the timeout or similar informations.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

The activity manager doesn't fit your needs ? (see tools -> Activity manager)

Comment 2

[zuhansh]

I really didn't know, that such a tool exists (maybe it is a little bit hidden) - is it new with version 3.0?

I'll give it surely a try now and will report my experiences - maybe it fits my needs.

although it would be imho better to put this functionality more to the front somehow (so that I can see more information "live").

Comment 3

[zuhansh]

hello,

it lasted longer than expected to see my timeout again - now it happened.

and I have to say, that the activity manager doesn't fit my needs, because it - too - only says that timout occurred. it doesn't give any information (as far as I could see) about the concerning account.

I hope there will be a good solution sometimes...

Comment 4

[zuhansh]

some more (helpful?) details:

the timout happens after step one: "connecting with <host>" (in german: "Verbinden mit <...>").

and: I have several mail-accounts (belonging to 3 domains) on one mailserver.
and: I most often look for my mails with the one-click-option ("check-every-account" - in german: "Alle Konten abrufen").

so: is there possibly some room for optimizing this process? (e.g. just login once for every lookup or similar)