577763 - Use NetworkManager to detect online-status

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 391732

(MailNews Core :: Networking, enhancement)

Description

[Heiko Adams]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100622 Fedora/3.6.4-1.fc13 Firefox/3.6.4
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Most modern linux distributions support NetworkManager so it would be usefull to use NetworkManager to detect if the computer is online or not.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Thunderbird tries to fetch mails even if the computer is offline until to set thunderbird offline manualy

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird should automaticly recognize if the computer is online or not.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

see discussion in bug 424626

Comment 3

[Alanna]

firefox/tbird needs to check for the presence of a default route to detect internet connection, not network manager, as not all computers are running network manager. some may be running wicd, or tools such as wifi-radar, or even ifconfig/iwconfig/dhclient at the commandline, or, heaven forbid, dialup. 

alternatively, ff/tbird could try a test connection, and if it fails, then sit tight for a while.

Comment 4

[Martin Stránský [:stransky] (ni? me)]

It would be great to have such feature. Other desktop apps (like XChat) can recognize recent network status and behaves adequately.

Comment 5

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Blocks bug 465204?

Comment 6

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

I moved this to MailNews::Networking but maybe it belongs in Core::Networking after all.

Comment 7

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Thunderbird is already able to use NetworkManager on Linux to detect the online/offline status, however it is disabled due to reported issues on Linux with correctly identifying the status on all the various variants.

Therefore this is a dupe of bug 391732.