68613 - Clicking on mailto: link before mail is configured creates invalid compose window

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Scott Bronson]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test10 i686)
BuildID:    2000110321

If you haven't yet configured mail, when you click on a mailto: link, a compose
window immediately pops up, THEN the mail configuration wizard comes up over it.
Unfortunately, the compose window is not updated with the values from the
configuration wizard and f you try to use it, you get errors.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start with an unconfigured mail system (clean install)
2.Click on a mailto: link. A compose window pops up. Then the mail configuration
wizard pops up over it.
3.Configure your mail and click finish.


Actual Results:  You now have a window onscreen that looks and acts like a good
compose window, but it has the wrong settings -- it cannot be used to send mail.

Expected Results:  Mozilla should have waited until mail was configured before
popping up the compose window.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Possibly related to bug 42956

Comment 2

[Scott Bronson]

Yes, they do appear related.  However, you don't have to cancel the Account
Wizard.  The compose window appears and is non-functional even if you finish
configuring mail.

Comment 3

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

over to varada. Did we already fix this problem?

Comment 4

[varada]

We fixed this problem and I am not seeing this problem with the latest build
20010212 WinNT. I suggest updating the builds and trying again.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

worksforme, linux build 2001-03-06-08.  Composition win is correctly updated to
use the newly created identity.

Marking worksforme. Scott, please reopen if you are still seeing this with a
recent build.

Comment 6

[laurel]

Marking verified (worksforme)