608469 - imap server connection not closed until exit of Seamonkey

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 49473

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[Jay White]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.14) Gecko/20100930 SeaMonkey/2.0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.14) Gecko/20100930 SeaMonkey/2.0.9

If one has an imap server, and if the "Use IDLE command if the server supports it" is off, and if "Check for new messages every N minutes" if off, then seamonkey still hold the server connection open after reading mail.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. configure an imap mail server
2. open and read mail
3. close mail
Actual Results:  
tcp connection to server remains open

Expected Results:  
tcp connection should be closed

Additionally, if one turns "Check for new messages every N minutes" off, then why should IDLE commands still occur?  If one does not want to learn of new messages then it should not happen.  The "Check for new messages every N minutes" setting being turned off should override any "Use IDLE command if the server supports it" setting.

But in any case, if both options are turned off then the tcp connection should be closed when the mail window closes.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

connections stay open until they timeout.
I'm pretty sure this is a duplicate of another seamonkey bug report, but I'm not finding it.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Found it. This is bug 49473 and there are no plans to change this