562133 - 3.0.4. Jams the message receipt process - get "This folder is being processed. Please wait until processing is complete to get messages." Downgrading to 3.0.2 clears the problem

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 392680

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[[e-mail]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6; .NET CLR 3.0; ffco7) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4

The Alert "This folder is being processed. Please wait until processing is complete to get messages." has always been a minor irritant.  Last week-end it inhibited the receipt of messages so much that hosts mail system came down.  After clearing this, a day later emails not coming through (getting the "This folder is being processed ..." error every time.  Web-mail confirmed in-boxes filling up.  Downgrading to version 3.0.2. (install over 3.0.4) cleared the problem - instant deluge of messages!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install 3.0.4.
2. Click receive mail icon
Actual Results:  
The "Folder is being processed ..." Alert
No messages downloaded from server

Expected Results:  
messages downloaded from server

Comment 1

[[e-mail]]

Receiving from Exchange via DavMail (mimicing IMAP) is immune from this problem

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

So you only have one mail account on your thunderbird profile ?

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> So you only have one mail account on your thunderbird profile ?
No, I have multiple accounts two IMAP (one direct, one via DavMail), rest POP.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

ludo, did you have a "regression"-type bug in mind?

david, does this also fail for  you when using v3.1?  (if fixed in 3.1, then perhaps bug 466933

regarding the jump from 3.0.2 to 3.0.4, not all that much changed:
fixed3.0.4 http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-1.9.1/pushloghtml?startdate=2010-02-27+13%3A18&enddate=2010-03-17+09%3A49
fixed3.0.3 http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-1.9.1/pushloghtml?startdate=2010-02-16+14%3A22&enddate=2010-02-27+13%3A18

And, I hesitate to mention it, but http://gsfn.us/t/pngx list some strange claimed "solutions".

Comment 5

[Rob]

(Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100722 Eudora/3.0.4)

This modal dialogue is a constant and ongoing annoyance.

The greatest source of frustration is the never ending series of modal dialogue boxes that need to be attended to manually -- over and over and over.

The worst of those is the useless "this folder is being processed" MODAL dialogue that pops up continuously, on window after window.  It does nothing of value that I can detect, and you can continue to work, it simply requires that you CLICK it or type return -- for each and every one, over and over. 

Seriously, I use Eudora OSE with a finger hovering over the 'return' key. I must make that stupid dialogue go away over a hundred times a day. And to add to the annoyance, it moves focus to the window displaying the dialogue.  It also, of course, bounces the icon in the dock until you take care of this vitally important modal dialogue. 

That dialogue could be removed from the program entirely with no loss in functionality, as far as I can see. It would be an IMPROVEMENT. Just get rid of the damn thing -- it does NOTHING except annoy.

Comment 6

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Same problem as already fixed Bug 392680? (fixed by Tb 3.3)
FYI. Following is seen in Bug 392680.
> *** Bug 403184 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
> *** Bug 436939 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
> *** Bug 539421 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
> *** Bug 550121 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***