716866 - thunderbird gets confused after connection problem to a news server

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 695309

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Andriy Gapon]

Attachment: Screenshot of the dialog presented after the connectivity problem

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
Build ID: 20111109192025

Steps to reproduce:

Tried to read a group on a news (usenet) server and experienced a temporary connection problem.  The problem could have been either a low level network connectivity problem or an NNTP-level problem such as the server refusing a service because of a too high load.


Actual results:

After the connection problem is gone, it seems that thunderbird forgets which messages are already downloaded and read.  The problem is corrected only by restarting thunderbird.  Otherwise, when I open any newsgroup on the server I get a dialog window that tells me that there is a large number of new message headers on the server and asks whether I want to download all of them, etc.


Expected results:

Nothing special. I should be able to continue reading the news from the point before the connectivity problem.

Comment 1

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to Andriy Gapon from comment #0)
See bug 695309.