550724 - IMAP subscription list contacts server when offline

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 308650

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[Eric Moore]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2pre) Gecko/20100302 Lanikai/3.1b1

I'm running a "offline, disk space" Litmus test case (Folders -- basic operations error/negative situations in offline state: verify handling in offline state and proper folder display when back online) 

Thunderbird is offline. If I right click on the inbox for my Fastmail, Aim, GMX or Gmail IMAP account and select subscribe it appears to try to contact the IMAP server to refresh the folder list. It never times outs, it just keeps displaying "Please wait.". I can stop it using either the stop or cancel button.

Its supposed to know that it shouldn't contact the mail server when working offline. I expected "subscribe" to be disabled in the context menu when working offline.




Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

We try to contact the server, but we fail because the networking code refuses to make network connections while offline. We should be handling the failure...but I'm sure this is a dup.

Comment 3

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Cleanup *dupeme* whiteboard flag from bugs that are marked as Resolved Duplicate!