577647 - Going offline does not download all messages

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Backend, defect)

Description

[Claus Reibenstein]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de-AT; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100504 Mnenhy/0.8.3 SeaMonkey/2.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de-AT; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100504 Mnenhy/0.8.3 SeaMonkey/2.0.5

When I read some groups online and then switch SeaMonkey Mail/News to offline, not all messages are downloaded for offline reading, although all groups are marked accordingly. It seems that some groups are skipped completely (for whatever reason).

When I switch back to online and then offline again, all messages that were missed the first time are now downloaded correctly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Read some groups and then switch to offline. Watch the status messages.
2. Switch back to online.
3. Switch offline again. Watch the status messages.
Actual Results:  
The first time, only a few messages are downloaded. The second time, all messages are retrieved.

Expected Results:  
All messages should be retrieved at the first offline event.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Claus, by "groups" do you mean newsgroups?  Or mail. If news groups, please give an example or two.

Comment 2

[Claus Reibenstein]

Wayne, I am talking of newsgroups, of course. I thought "groups" was clear enough, but obviously it wasn't.

What do you mean by "example"? I subscribed about 30 newsgroups, and I found no system which groups are skipped on the first download attempt. They seem to be selected randomly.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

examples as in names of newsgroups (+server)

by randomly, do you mean it changes over time?

can you get a log capturing the small period of failure?
 timestamp,nntp:5
per https://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:Logging

Comment 4

[Claus Reibenstein]

Attachment: Requested Logfile

Here's the requested log.

Comment 5

[Claus Reibenstein]

Yes, it changes every time.

The server for all newsgroups is news.individual.de.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Claus, do you still see this problem when using a current version?

Comment 7

[Claus Reibenstein]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #6)
> Claus, do you still see this problem when using a current version?

Unfortunately yes. Just tested with version 2.14.1.

Comment 8

[Claus Reibenstein]

(In reply to Claus Reibenstein from comment #7)
> (In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #6)
> > Claus, do you still see this problem when using a current version?
> 
> Unfortunately yes. Just tested with version 2.14.1.

BTW: In the meantime, I updated from Vista to 7, both Home Premium 64bit.

Comment 9

[Hartmut Welpmann [:welpy-cw]]

Is this still an issue with Thunderbird 140 or newer?

Comment 10

[Claus Reibenstein]

I still use SeaMonkey, so I don't have any information about Thunderbird.

Comment 11

[Hartmut Welpmann [:welpy-cw]]

Thanks for the quick response. Since the NNTP code has considerably changed with Thunderbird 102, moving this to SeaMonkey.