860590 - POP3 mail fetch: status message not updated when connection fails (stays in state "Connecting to ...")

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, defect)

Description

[halfdog]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0 SeaMonkey/2.20a1
Build ID: 20130409003001

Steps to reproduce:

Tried to fetch mails via POP3/SSL from a server, where the service was not running at the moment.


Actual results:

The client status bar switched to "Connecting to ....", opened the TCP connection, got a TCP connection reset immediately. But the client status bar did not update, keeping one waiting for login prompt or messages to arrive, which is never going to happen.


Expected results:

Status bar should change to "Connection failed" or "Failed: connection refused by server"

Comment 1

[halfdog]

Reproduce (when no POP3 running on localhost):

* Create new test account
* e-mail: test@localhost
* Incoming server: localhost (POP3)
* Get messages

Comment 2

[Philip Chee]

Are you sure the message isn't:
"Connect: Host for <blahblah> contacted, sending login information..."?

Comment 3

[halfdog]

Attachment: Message on status bar

It stays in "Connecting to localhost..." state but TCP connection is already dead (not shown in netstat)

Comment 4

[Philip Chee]

Moving to MailNews Core

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

halfdog, do you still encounter this issue?

Comment 6

[halfdog]

At least with Thunderbird build 20180712 (currently have no Seamonkey installation at hand), the issue is better, although not completely fixed. Setting up an account as described in "comment #1" and fetching mails results in a sticky popup saying:

"""Thunderbird: Could not connect to server localhost: the connection was refused"""

After closing the popup, the status bar still does not update (saying "Connecting ...") but as there was the popup, the user should notice, that something has failed and ignore the outdated status written on the status bar.

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

halfdog,

Pop protocol has completely been replaced in recent years.

Are you still seeing this problem?

Comment 8

[Phoenix]

Resolved per whiteboard

Comment 9

[halfdog]

Sorry, I discontinued use of Thunderbird for my mailboxes. Also the issue was just an annoyance that could be worked around when back then some internet connections were less stable than nowadays.