69769 - Store Unsent messages in Unsent Messages folder when Send fails.

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Networking, enhancement)

Description

[hirata masakazu]

This has been happening quite some time, but no mention of it in Bugzilla when I
looked for it.
In 2001022113 MacOS build trunk, Send failure of Mail and News messages does not
result in the messages stored in Unset Messages folder.
Currently, it has no use.
Therefore, bug 55236 is pretty severe when send fails.

Comment 1

[laurel]

We save messages in the Unsent Messages folder only when utilizing the Send
Later command. (File|Send Later, offline usage will also default to send later.)
Correct it is that there are some issues (and several outstanding bug reports
besides the one you mentioned) about how various send failures may be handled,
but we do not automatically store them in Unsent.  

I would say this is a "wontfix" or "invalid" by design, but I'll let development
decide what resolution to give this bug report.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I think that unsent messages (because of message send failure) should warn and
return the user to the compose window.  This is the current behavior I believe
and the correct behavior.

Comment 3

[hirata masakazu]

Maybe I should mark this as RFE, then.
Unless bug 55236 is fixed, I would say this feature is pretty important.

Comment 4

[Adam Hauner]

MacOS 8.5 builds is gone - shouldn't be this bug WONTFIXed?

Comment 5

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

resolving as Wontfix since we no longer have MacOS classic builds.

Comment 6

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified Won'tFix.