608702 - draft saving doesn't work when the mail server is down

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 250706

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[samokhodkin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.41 Safari/534.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; ru; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.0.10

See steps to reproduce


Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Started thunderbird
2. Loaded new messages
3. Started writing a reply to some message.
4. Meanwhile, my pop/smtp server got down (it happens)
5. I try to send the message. The server doesn't respond.
6. I press ctrl-S to save the message as the draft
Actual Results:  
2 error messages. Rough translation from russian:
1-st: cannot send the message 
2-nd: cannot save the draft. check the server parameters

Expected Results:  
Ok message

Feel extremely frustrated.
Many, many versions ago thunderbird was much better. Really.

Comment 1

[Brandon Sterne (:bsterne)]

Not an exploitable issue that needs to remain hidden.