708342 - Bogus numbers in "Downloading X of Y in Folder Z" toolbar status

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

Attachment: Screenshot of bug in action

Sometimes, in the "Downloading X of Y in Folder Z" message in the toolbar, the numbers are inconsistent. Such as X > Y, which is impossible.

This is happening during the server outage @mozilla.com, so I suppose it's related to not being able to contact the server and showing inconsistent/outdated info.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Can't find the dupe :(

Comment 2

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to Gian-Carlo Pascutto (:gcp) from comment #0)
> "Downloading X of Y in Folder Z" message in the toolbar,
> Such as X > Y, which is impossible.

I saw it in Activity Manager several times during testing for IMAP bugs by;
  when downloading of mails by auto-sync starts.
    (assume number of mails=9, UID=1:3, 5:7, 9:11. uid 1:3 fetch body is issued)
    => Downloading 1->2->3 of 9
  interfere it by click of a new mail.
  after fetch of 1:3(3 mails), auto-synch tries to 4-th mail(uid 5:7 fetch),
    => X is incremented by 1. Downloading 4 of 9
  but it is intercepted by fetch for mail display at message pane.
    => stops at "Downloading 4 of 9"
  auto-sync is resumed(uid=5:7) and fetch is issued,
    => X is incremented by 1. Downloading 5->6->7 of 9
  auto-sync continues(uid=9:11) and fetch is issued.
    => X is incremented by 1. Downloading 8->9->10 of 9 
If auto-sync is inturrupted, X=number of attempted fetch, and Y=number of fetched mails, so X>Y can normally occur. In this case, it's not inconsistent, merely too confusing :-) If message is "Tried to download mail X times for Y mails", it's accurate, even if useless for user.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

dup should be amongst https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced;short_desc_type=allwordssubstr;resolution=---;type0-0-0=nowords;value0-0-0=count%20counts;product=MailNews%20Core;product=Thunderbird;short_desc=status%20bar;list_id=5091863

Comment 4

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #3)
I can't find any specific bug to which specific/re-producible case of my comment #3(impossible X>Y case in Activity Manager message), should be duped, in bugs you have listed.
Should I open separate bug for specific/re-producible case of my comment #3?

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

perhaps a better query [1] - but I thought there were more bug reports like this than I am seeing in query results

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?type1-0-0=anywordssubstr;short_desc=status%20downloading%20folder%20toolbar;field0-0-0=short_desc;resolution=---;query_format=advanced;value1-0-0=message%20mail%20;short_desc_type=anywordssubstr;type0-0-0=anywords;value0-0-0=count%20counts%20number;component=Folder%20and%20Message%20Lists;component=Mail%20Window%20Front%20End;field1-0-0=short_desc;product=MailNews%20Core;product=Thunderbird;list_id=5228422

Comment 6

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #5)
> perhaps a better query [1] - but I thought there were more bug reports like
> this than I am seeing in query results

A lot of the "counting new messages (wrongly)" stuff ends up in the new mail notification (aka biff), so you might want to check out the biff tracker bug 36011 or, for larger scope of around biff bugs, Wayne's query from Bug 36011 Comment 15:
http://tinyurl.com/462mb8

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

gcp, do you still see this issue?

Comment 9

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

I don't remember seeing this recently.