81208 - Connection establishment timeout: to a mail server

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Description

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Build: 2001051504, Mac OS 9.1

To reproduce:
*   Start Mozilla on a system which uses a dial-up connection.
*   Disconnect from the Internet.
*   Open the three-pane window.
*   Click `Cancel' on the two dial-up networking progress windows which
    appear.
*   Go away for half an hour. Have a game of tiddly-winks, or file a few bugs
    using another computer, or skim-read /War and Peace/.
*   Come back and look at Mozilla.

What you should see:
*   An alert, which has been there for 29 minutes, saying something like
    `Mozilla could not connect to the server mail.foo.bar, because there was a
    problem with the Internet connection. Check the connection and make sure
    your server settings are correct, and try again.'

What you actually see:
*   The throbber still spining merrily away, as if the mail server is going to
    respond (via the non-existent Internet connection) any second now.

Comment 1

[Karen Huang]

Reporter, is this problem occurring on the other platforms as well or just 
specific Mac platform?

Comment 2

[scottputterman]

moving to 0.9.3

Comment 3

[Navin Gupta]

reassingn to self. cc mscott. 

Comment 4

[Navin Gupta]

It worksforme on mac 2001061908. I do get the alert and hitting ok on the alert
does stop the throbber. 

Comment 5

[Navin Gupta]

marking wfm

Comment 6

[Karen Huang]

Matthew, we don't have the dial-up connection setup internally for Mac platform.
Can you try on the latest build again to see this problem is still occurring?
Please mark as verified if you agree this problem is worksforme now. Thanks.

Comment 7

[Karen Huang]

This bug either is WFM or fix from bug 99228.
Marking as verified. 
Reporter, please reopen this bug if problem is still occurring for the latest 
build.

Comment 8

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Reproduced in build 2001110908, Mac OS 9.1. Reopening.

Comment 9

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

milestone->0.9.7

Comment 10

[Karen Huang]

*** Bug 103278 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[scottputterman]

moving to 1.0.1

Comment 12

[Tom Mraz]

This is not platform specific as the dup is on Windows 2000.
Also I think this issue should be adressed sooner -> nominating mozilla1.0
It's very annoying esp. with combination with bug 71792.

Comment 13

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

works for me on linux 2002051216 using an imaps (ssl) server - I do get a
messagebox ("error connecting to imap.web.de" or so)

Comment 14

[Richard Herrell]

See a message box that reads "Connection to server server.example.com timed
out", and I have to click "OK" before Mozilla will try to connect to that server
again.  

Comment 15

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

mass re-assign.

Comment 16

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 17

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Matthew, do you still see this problem?


Tom wrote: I do not use Seamonkey or Thunderbird for e-mail anymore

Comment 18

[Phil Turner]

T-bird worked fine until 1/15/2008 but timed out afterward.  Message "Alert! Connection to server incoming.yahoo.verizon.net timed out"

Comment 19

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Per previous comment. I think.